Elizabeth Koning
Research Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolElizabeth Koning is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UIUC specializing in parallel computing and bioinformatics, with nine years of hands-on experience spanning national labs, university research, and teaching. Her work experience includes a recent graduate internship at Sandia National Laboratories and ongoing research assistantship at UIUC, building scalable, parallel solutions for computational biology problems. She brings a strong undergraduate research background from UC Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Lab, plus practical mentoring and debugging instruction from multiple lab monitor roles. Fluent in collaborative research settings, she has led student clubs and contributed to a thread-safe graphics library, signaling both technical depth in concurrency and a talent for clear technical communication. Based in Grand Rapids, MI, she combines rigorous academic training with applied lab experience to translate complex algorithms into usable bioinformatics tools.
9 years of coding experience
Spanish Language, Spanish Language at Universidad de OviedoHigh School, High School at Holland Christian High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Calvin University
English
Github Skills (50)
netlogo10
agent-based-modeling10
thread9
linux8
opengl8
forge7
ubuntu7
dictionary7
waydroid7
gnu7
multiprocessing7
genome7
chroot6
cryptocurrency6
bioinformatics6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
calvin-cs262-teamF/Grassroots-Green-Calvin
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 90 PRs, 93 pushes in 2 months
kodingkoning/pplacerDC
Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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