Cliff Kerr
Senior Software Engineer at Gates Foundation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCliff Kerr is a Senior Software Engineer and epidemiologist with 11 years of experience building open-source models and algorithms for public health, currently at the Gates Foundation. Trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD) with postdoctoral work in computational neuroscience, he has bridged detailed brain simulations and robotics research with large-scale infectious disease modeling. As co-founder and lead developer for the Optima Consortium, he helped governments in over 50 countries plan health investments using the Optima modeling suite. His work combines rigorous mathematical modeling, software engineering, and policy-focused analytics to turn complex epidemiological data into actionable decisions. Based in New York, he brings a rare blend of academic depth and applied software practice, able to move projects from prototype simulations to production-ready tools. An interesting throughline in his career is teaching robots to pick up balls from monkey-brain simulations—evidence of his knack for translating abstract models into real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
321reputation
40kreached
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Github Skills (192)
computational-neuroscience10
python10
simulator10
computational-science10
data-manipulation10
stochastic10
synthetic10
language-server-protocol10
forge10
gtk10
profiling10
scientific-computing10
simplify10
python-development10
parallelization10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
amath-idm/covasim_apps
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:70 commits, 29 pushes in 1 month
thekerrlab/asd
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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