Jason Miller
Visiting Associate Professor Of Computer Science
Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJason Miller is a Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science with 21 years of experience bridging bioinformatics research and software engineering, currently based in Frederick, Maryland. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers on genome assembly, expression analysis, and machine learning, and has led research and software teams at institutions including the J. Craig Venter Institute, Celera, and GlaxoSmithKline. Jason contributes to notable open-source bioinformatics tooling—such as core back-end work on the widely used Canu genome assembler—bringing practical bug fixes, refactors, and data-structure enhancements. His career blends hands-on systems development, grant-funded research leadership, and academic teaching, informed by a PhD in Computer Science and an earlier computational biology MSc. Known for translating complex biological problems into robust software, he maintains active research ties as a University of Oslo affiliate while teaching and mentoring the next generation of computational biologists.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at New York UniversityMaster’s Degree Biotechnology Computational Biology, Master’s Degree Biotechnology Computational Biology at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
bioinformatics10
assembly10
c1110
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
cprogramming-language5
c-language5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
marbl/canu
Mar 2005 - Sep 2012
A single molecule sequence assembler for genomes large and small.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the core functionality of the "canu" assembler, with commits focused on the source code modifications within the `src/AS_CGW` directory. The code changes involved debugging, fixing bugs, and refactoring existing code. They also added functionality for data structures.
sequencegenomespipelinesingle-moleculeassembler
ShepherdCode/ShepherdGrid
May 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 45 pushes in 8 months
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