David Bapst
Assistant Instructional Professor at Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Bapst is an assistant instructional professor and research scientist with 14 years of experience applying statistical and computational methods to paleobiology and phylogenetics. He develops and maintains the R package paleotree and has 8+ years of R programming experience focused on bioinformatics, integrating fossil and molecular data to infer evolutionary relationships. His work has produced six peer-reviewed publications (including invited pieces), 10 international conference presentations, and leadership on multi-institution NSF proposals and conference symposia. Based in College Station, he blends hands-on method development with classroom instruction and collaborative, open-source tool building—an unusual mix that bridges deep statistical rigor with practical software for studying the incompleteness of the rock record.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Geology, Bachelor's Degree, Geology at University at BuffaloDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysical Sciences at The University of Chicago
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
datatypes10
r-package10
r10
r-library10
gstreamer9
github-projects9
document-reader9
linux9
phylogenetics9
pygobject8
macos8
rmarkdown8
literate-programming8
music8
knitr8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dwbapst/paleotree
Mar 2012 - Aug 2022
R library for analyzing, time-scaling and simulating phylogenies of extinct/fossil lineages. Also plots diversity curves for stratigraphic range data and phylogenies, including combinations of these two data types.
Contributions:5 releases, 993 commits, 70 PRs in 10 years 6 months
datatypesrr-library
dwbapst/exaile
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
:notes: Cross-platform music player
Contributions:7 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
noteselectroncross-platform-music-playerwindowscross-platform
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