Michael Karcher
Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Karcher is an Assistant Professor and statistical scientist with 12 years of experience applying advanced quantitative methods across ecology, cosmology, and epidemiology. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington and has translated academic research into practical tools—authoring an R package for phylodynamic inference and an online introductory statistics and data science textbook. His background spans academia, industry actuarial work, and independent consulting, where he has analyzed clinical trial results and co-authored publications. Michael excels at learning hard technical skills on demand, combining stochastic modeling, machine learning, and software development (R/Python) to turn complex data into actionable insight. Based in Allentown, PA, he brings a rare mix of theoretical depth and applied delivery, from optimizing cosmological simulations to informing public-health analyses.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (33)
evolutionary10
beast10
journal10
sampling10
java10
mcmc10
bayesian10
evolution10
phylogenetics10
uci9
stochastic9
modeling8
machine-learning8
statistics8
tracks5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdkarcher/BEAST-XML
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mdkarcher/phylodyn
Dec 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:181 commits, 2 PRs, 114 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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