Andrew Kern
Director, Institute Of Ecology And Evolution at University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Kern is a population geneticist and computational biologist with 11+ years of academic leadership experience, now serving as Director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution and Evergreen Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon. His research blends population genetics, machine learning, and evolutionary theory to tackle complex questions in biodiversity and adaptation, informed by a PhD from UC Davis and a postdoc in computational biology at UC Santa Cruz. He has progressed through faculty ranks at Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Oregon, building interdisciplinary programs and mentoring the next generation of quantitative biologists. Known for translating theory into data-driven models, he brings both deep domain expertise and practical computational skill to institutional strategy and research development. An Oregon-based scientist, he pairs long-form academic rigor with an appetite for methodological innovation that often yields unexpected cross-disciplinary collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Population Genetics, PhD, Population Genetics at University of California, DavisSc.B. with honors, Biology, Sc.B. with honors, Biology at Brown UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (110)
python10
genomics10
simulate10
genetic10
genetics10
simulation10
bioinformatics10
population-genetics10
sequence10
geographic9
splits9
ipython-magic9
location9
infer9
neural-architecture-search9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kr-colab/stairwayPlotMisorient
Nov 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
andrewkern/manuscript
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
PopSim consortium manuscript
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 42 branches in 7 months
manuscriptconsortium
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