Jason Williams
Assistant Director at Yeshiva University
Town of Huntington, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Williams is an experienced science education leader with over a decade at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he directs international efforts to establish hands-on biology learning centers and train educators in data-intensive research methods. As Assistant Director and long-time lead of iPlant Collaborative Education, Outreach, and Training, he blends curriculum development, capacity-building, and partnership management to scale the DNALC model across regions including China and Mexico. He also brings nonprofit governance experience from roles at Dryad and the Software Carpentry Foundation, reflecting a commitment to open science and researcher training. Trained in molecular biology at Stony Brook, Jason pairs deep domain knowledge with practical instructional design and educator coaching—helping scientists adopt cutting-edge tools while making complex biology accessible to learners.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Molecular Biology, Molecular Biology at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (85)
ipython10
data-management10
genomics10
r10
spanish10
data-wrangling10
data-visualization10
shell10
stable10
jupyter10
multi-user10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub10
project-organization10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
CyVerse-learning-materials/cyverse_tutorial_template
Mar 2017 - Sep 2021
This is the template for building a learning center tutorial
Contributions:49 commits, 5 PRs, 43 pushes in 4 years 6 months
centertemplatelearning-center
JasonJWilliamsNY/cyverse_tutorial_template
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 16 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years
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