Derrick Zwickl
Research Associate
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Zwickl is a computational evolutionary biologist and research associate with 17 years of experience building high-performance scientific software and analysis pipelines for phylogenomics. He designs and maintains HPC-enabled tools (notably GARLI, Terraphy and PYGOT) that estimate evolutionary trees, characterize phylogenetic terraces, and quantify gene–species tree discordance, and has integrated GPU acceleration via the BEAGLE library. Comfortable in C++, Python and Linux cluster environments, he combines rigorous algorithm development with practical system administration and user-focused documentation. Based in Tucson, he collaborates across diverse bioinformatics groups and has a track record of open-source projects that turn large sequence datasets into reproducible evolutionary insights.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaPh. D., Evolutionary Biology, Ph. D., Evolutionary Biology at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (16)
sequence7
evolution7
simulation7
sbml7
fluid7
physics6
optimization6
modelica5
python5
fluid-dynamics5
snl-applications5
machine-learning4
hpc4
multiphysics3
nexus3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zwickl/garli
Feb 2012 - Sep 2022
Contributions:112 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
zwickl/terraphy
Nov 2014 - Jan 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 79 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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