Curtis Huttenhower
Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCurtis Huttenhower is a computational biologist and Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with 16 years of experience bridging computer science and biological research. Trained with a Ph.D. from Princeton and an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon, he has advanced bioinformatics through successive faculty roles at Harvard since 2009, focusing on methods for large-scale biological data analysis. His background includes industry software development at Microsoft and hands-on mentoring and teaching from Johns Hopkins CTY to university students, reflecting a rare blend of production-grade engineering and pedagogy. Curtis’s work is characterized by computational rigor applied to public health questions, often translating complex algorithms into reproducible research and educational resources. Based in Boston, he combines deep theoretical training with practical tool-building for the life sciences, and he’s known for fostering interdisciplinary collaborators across biology, statistics, and computer science.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Math, and Chemistry, B.S., Computer Science, Math, and Chemistry at Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyA.A., A.A. at Bard College at Simon's RockM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (25)
bioconductor8
meta7
keyboard7
microbiome7
bioinformatics6
linear-models6
meta-analysis6
decomposition6
metagenomics5
python5
ecology5
connectivity4
devops4
sbml4
evolution4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
biobakery/humann_legacy
Dec 2010 - Mar 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 3 years 3 months
biobakery/breadcrumbs
Aug 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 8 months
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