Dominic Nelson
PhD Graduate Student
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolDominic Nelson is a computational genetics PhD candidate at McGill with 11 years of software and quantitative experience, combining an M.Sc. in mathematics with deep expertise in Python and C for high-performance simulation and statistical methods. He designs and implements algorithms and production-ready software for large-scale genetics data, including a performance-focused extension to the msprime C library while visiting Oxford. Comfortable across the stack—from numpy/pandas prototyping to C performance engineering, Bash pipelines, and Git workflows—he also supervises students and translates mathematical ideas into efficient code. Prior field leadership managing large-scale environmental monitoring programs demonstrates his ability to coordinate teams and stakeholder engagement in complex, real-world settings.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics at University of GuelphDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Genetics at McGill University
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Github Skills (9)
genetics10
simulation10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
genetic10
simulate10
sequence10
python9
project-management1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DomNelson/allele-sim
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:167 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
DomNelson/pedigree_msp
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:108 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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