AkiĀ Watanabe
Associate Professor
Village of Old Westbury, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAki Watanabe is an Associate Professor and evolutionary biologist with a decade of experience studying craniofacial and neuroanatomical evolution across the dinosaur-bird transition using comparative anatomy, geometric morphometrics, and computational methods. Based at New York Institute of Technology, he develops analytical tools that probe biases in phylogenetics and shape analysis while teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in anatomy and morphometrics. His work combines large-scale 3-D imaging and surface morphometrics to quantify modularity, disparity, and evolutionary rates across living and extinct tetrapods. Known for bridging developmental and evolutionary timescales, he brings a quantitative, tool-building mindset to classic questions about skull and brain evolution. An unexpected strength is his fluency in converting museum-grade specimen imaging into rigorous multivariate datasets that reveal subtle evolutionary patterns.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biological Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biological Science at Florida State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Comparative Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Comparative Biology at Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural HistoryBachelor's degree, Biological Sciences, Geophysical Sciences, Bachelor's degree, Biological Sciences, Geophysical Sciences at The University of Chicago
English, JapaneseGithub contributions (5)
akiopteryx/lambda
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
akiopteryx/analyses
Jun 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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