Rishi De-kayne
Scientist at Arcadia Science
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi De-kayne is a scientist and bioinformatician with eight years' experience applying genomics and statistical analysis to understand genome structure, adaptation, and speciation, particularly in non-model organisms with complex genomes. He has led genome assembly and annotation efforts and analyzed large whole-genome sequencing datasets using HPC and scientific computing pipelines across academic and industry settings, including postdoctoral positions at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, and the University of Edinburgh, and now at Arcadia Science. Passionate about emerging genomics technologies, he packages reproducible analysis scripts alongside publications and emphasizes scalable, production-ready workflows. Trained with a PhD in Genomics from the University of Bern and a background in tropical forest ecology from Imperial College London, he blends ecological insight with computational rigor to tackle evolutionary questions at genomic scale.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Genomics at University of BernMaster of Science - MS Tropical Forest Ecology, Master of Science - MS Tropical Forest Ecology at Imperial College London
Github Skills (19)
nmf6
traits5
population-genetics5
convergence5
protein-sequences4
statistics4
dub3
simulations3
bioinformatics3
snakemake2
sequence2
genome-assembly2
python1
conda1
docker1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
RishiDeKayne/WhitefishReferenceGenome
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 31 pushes in 2 years 4 months
RishiDeKayne/RishiDeKayne.github.io
Nov 2019 - Apr 2026
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Contributions:451 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 5 months
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