Michael Gastner
Associate Professor
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gastner is an interdisciplinary data scientist and associate professor specializing in information visualization, cartography, and complex systems, with a decade of experience translating mathematical models into practical tools and teaching. He leads development of go-cart.io and a Ministry-funded project on mobile-friendly cartograms, blending algorithmic innovation with human-subject research to make geographic data more accessible. His career spans prestigious research fellowships and faculty roles—publishing on networked transport, ecology, and brain connectomes—demonstrating a rare mix of theoretical depth and applied impact. An educator who redesigns curricula around the Tidyverse and team-based learning, he consistently mentors students to publish and present at top venues. Notably, his background in statistical physics and network science informs visualization algorithms that reveal non-obvious spatial patterns in real-world datasets.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of MichiganVordiplom, Physics, 1.0 (best possible), Vordiplom, Physics, 1.0 (best possible) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Latin
Stackoverflow
55reputation
2kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (30)
cartogram10
cpp9
legend6
high-performance6
database6
igraph6
ggplot6
currency6
cgal6
tidyverse6
postgresql6
r6
development-environment5
aws5
latex5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mgastner/cartogram-web
Jun 2020 - Apr 2023
A website that makes it easy to generate contiguous area cartograms
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
cartograms
mgastner/cartogram-serverless
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
AWS Lambda wrapper for the cartogram generator at mgastner/cartogram
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
serverless-applicationscartogramaws-lambdaawslambda
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