Emilia Simmons
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmilia Simmons is a computational biologist and postdoctoral researcher with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging physics, biomedical engineering, and microbial ecology. At Dartmouth College she models bacteria–bacteriophage interactions in biofilms, combining agent-based simulation, statistical modeling, and bioinformatics to produce tools like simbiofilm and contributions to MDSINE. Transitioning from a physics background, she’s comfortable translating complex mathematical models into robust computational implementations and mentoring undergraduates as part of her lab leadership. Her open-source contributions include back-end improvements to the popular nvim-treesitter project, showing attention to code quality and tooling beyond her domain. Now seeking industry roles, she aims to apply her data-analysis and modeling expertise to collaborative teams that value continual learning and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Atomic/Molecular Physics, Master of Science - MS, Atomic/Molecular Physics at University of DelawareDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Github Skills (7)
neovim10
lua10
tree-sitter10
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Emilia primarily focused on modifying configuration files related to Tree-sitter queries within the Neovim plugin ecosystem. Their commits addressed issues in the query highlighting, allowing for multiline comments and no spaces for extend/inherit statements, improving the flexibility of the configuration. They also fixed a selection issue within the revision archive, impacting the functionality of the shell command selectors, and formatted files using stylua, indicating a focus on code quality and consistency.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
milisims/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:224 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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