Colton聽Avila
Graduate Research Assistant
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolColton Avila is a multidisciplinary research engineer with nine years of experience applying computational tools to ecological and hydrologic problems, currently pursuing a PhD in Biological & Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University. He blends ML/DL, GIS, and software skills (Python, R, C++, SQL, JavaScript) to model links between aquatic microbiomes and hydrologic processes, and previously developed novel influence-propagation models for wildfire management networks. His work spans biodiversity and endangered species analyses, urban heat island and flood risk assessments, and practical tooling鈥攕uch as a QGIS plugin and PostgreSQL/Django enhancements鈥攆or ecological data workflows. Comfortable at the intersection of field biology and data science, he has a track record of translating messy ecological datasets into simulation-ready insights and actionable conservation tools.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sustainability, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sustainability at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological & Ecological Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biological & Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (5)
qgis4
python3
trend3
ecology2
react1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
utkimchi/suspect_calculator
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
QGIS Plugin for determining suspect status of incoming specimen records - FOTX
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 3 months
specimenpythonrecordsqgis-pluginincoming
utkimchi/scrofa-scanner
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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