Matt Desaix
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Desaix is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with eight years of experience translating messy genomic datasets into actionable insights using statistical genetics, machine learning, and reproducible software pipelines. He has a strong track record in population genetics and wildlife genomics—authoring multiple peer-reviewed papers and building tools in R, Python, Bash, and Snakemake to automate eDNA, SNP-array, and genotype-likelihood workflows. At USDA APHIS he led spatially informed sample selection and ancestry/movement inference for wildlife, and now applies that expertise to product-focused genomics at CURIO Genomics. Comfortable bridging field ecology and computational methods, he pairs rigorous simulation and model validation with practical pipeline engineering. Outside the lab he’s an avid climber and skier in Colorado, which feeds his appetite for tackling complex, real-world data challenges.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Environmental Studies, Master of Science - MS, Environmental Studies at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Studies at Warren Wilson College
Github Skills (14)
r-package7
spatial5
vector4
r4
geospatial4
terra4
data-handling3
raster3
spatial-data3
gdal2
machine-learning1
data-integration1
cross-validation1
ruby1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mgdesaix/WGSassign
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Population assignment from genotype likelihoods for low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 122 pushes in 2 years 5 months
mgdesaix/mignette
Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
R package for creating migratory network models
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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