Kieran Samuk
Assistant Professor at Duke University
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolKieran Samuk is an evolutionary geneticist and assistant professor at UC Riverside with 11 years of research experience exploring how recombination shapes evolution and biodiversity. He combines population genomics, experimental evolution, and computer simulations to tackle fundamental questions, and carries a strong commitment to reproducible research and science education. Previously a postdoctoral associate at Duke and trained with a PhD from UBC, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on computational skills. Beyond publications, he contributes to open educational resources—refining a widely used STAT545 course website—to make data-wrangling and R-based analysis more accessible to students.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Evolutionary Biology, PhD, Evolutionary Biology at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science - BS, Zoology/Animal Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Zoology/Animal Biology at University of Toronto
Github Skills (5)
regular-expression10
documentation10
html9
manage8
website-admin8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
STAT545-UBC/STAT545-UBC-original-website
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Main repository for STAT 545 @ University of British Columbia, a course in data wrangling, exploration, and analysis with R.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kieran's contributions primarily involve modifying and integrating content within the course website. Their work includes adding links to regular expression resources and new material within the topics page, and updating the syllabus. They have also corrected spelling mistakes and formatting in homework assignments. The user's commits focus on refining the course's documentation and making learning resources readily accessible to students.
rstatsstatbritishwranglingbritish-columbia
ksamuk/pixy
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Software for painlessly estimating average nucleotide diversity within and between populations
Contributions:59 releases, 237 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 9 months
diversityminhashncbiestimatingbioinformatics
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