Deren Eaton
Associate Professor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeren Eaton is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with nine years of experience leading a genomics-focused research lab that builds production-grade pipelines and widely used open-source Python tools for phylogenetics and comparative genomics. He designs and scales WGS, RNA-seq, and variant-calling workflows on HPC clusters, and combines classical statistical approaches with machine learning—including neural networks for inferring admixture on phylogenies. Deren has managed over $3.5M in research funding and directed multi-institutional projects, translating wet-lab questions into reproducible, production-ready analyses. His software has been adopted broadly across the scientific community, driving thousands of citations and enabling many labs to handle messy, large-scale datasets. He also trains the next generation of computational biologists, teaching advanced genomics, Python, and reproducible research practices at Columbia. Based in New York, he’s actively seeking opportunities to apply his blend of genomics, engineering, and leadership to biotech and academic research challenges.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ecology evolution and behavior, Ecology evolution and behavior at University of MinnesotaDoctor of Philosophy Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy Evolutionary Biology at University of Chicago
Github Skills (89)
python10
package-management10
seq10
forge10
genomics10
phylogeny10
bioconda10
conda10
distributions10
assembly10
visualization10
matplotlib10
tree10
bioinformatics10
rad10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
genomics-course/11-assembly
Feb 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
eaton-lab/hack-the-planet
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 PRs, 174 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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