Kenji Hayashi
Postdoctoral Associate
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenji Hayashi is a quantitative ecologist and Postdoctoral Associate at Rice University with eight years of experience combining theory, fieldwork, and statistical modeling to address questions in ecology and environmental science. He specializes in R and Bayesian methods, using them to study plant competition, coexistence, and spatially variable environments—work rooted in a PhD from UCLA on California annual plants. A seasoned instructor and researcher, he has taught a broad range of ecology courses and contributed to multiple lab-based projects from Brown to UCLA, blending pedagogy with hands-on empirical research. Based in Houston, he brings a rare mix of rigorous quantitative skills and field ecology intuition, often translating complex ecological theory into reproducible data science workflows.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology at Brown UniversityBioresource Science, Bioresource Science at Kyoto UniversityScience and Math Track, Science and Math Track at Kyoto Municipal Saikyo Senior High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Japanese
Github Skills (41)
r9
r-package9
stable9
cross-validation9
knitr9
stan9
bayesian-data-analysis8
bayesian8
multilevel8
model-comparison8
statistical-models8
data-visualisation8
data-wrangling8
approximate7
bayesian-statistics7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kthayashi/cv
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 6 months
kthayashi/qmdtemplates
Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
Templates for Quarto (.qmd) documents
Contributions:6 releases, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 month
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