Megan Smith
Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
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Top SchoolMegan Smith is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University with nine years of experience at the intersection of computational biology, machine learning, and genomics. Her trajectory from a PhD in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University to postdoctoral research at Indiana University Bloomington reflects a strong foundation in evolutionary genomics paired with applied computational methods. She develops and applies machine learning approaches to genomic questions, translating complex biological data into testable hypotheses and actionable insights. Based in Starkville, she balances academic teaching and research while advancing interdisciplinary collaborations across biology and data science. Notably, her work emphasizes integrating evolutionary perspective into computational genomics, bringing depth to algorithmic analyses of biological systems.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (13)
r-package9
spectrum7
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assembler6
dtw5
evolution5
marine5
census5
placement4
projection4
location4
algorithm3
bioinformatics3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
meganlsmith/phyloGAN
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
SmithLabBio/popai
Jan 2024 - Sep 2025
Python package for performing species delimitation and demographic model selection.
Contributions:2 reviews, 14 PRs, 256 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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