Ryan Raaum - Associate Dean (Interim), School Of Natural And Social Sciences

Ryan Raaum

Associate Dean (Interim), School Of Natural And Social Sciences

New York, New York, United States

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Ryan Raaum is an applied population geneticist and academic leader with 18 years of experience studying how migration and population structure shape human genetic variation, currently serving as Interim Associate Dean for the School of Natural and Social Sciences at Lehman College. He combines rigorous research—testing and developing methods for inferring human population history—with a strong track record in bioinformatics and biostatistics, and he has contributed practical conda recipes to the widely-used Bioconda ecosystem for key tools like AdmixTools and RFMix. As an associate professor and former anthropology department chair, he blends administration, teaching, and collaborative research within the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. His work bridges human evolution, disease genetics, and questions of genetics and identity, reflecting both technical depth and an ability to translate computational methods into biological insight.

17 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Ph.D., Physical Anthropology, Ph.D., Physical Anthropology at New York University

International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Centre International de Valbonne

B.Sc., Physical Anthropology, B.Sc., Physical Anthropology at University of Calgary

English, French

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Github Skills (15)

bioinformatics10

bash10

conda10

package-management10

build-automation9

makefile9

gnu-make9

rstan6

libcurl6

force-layout6

ggplot6

pycurl6

python6

rstanarm6

Programming languages (6)

RShellTeXJavaScriptHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

bioconda/bioconda-recipes

Sep 2018 - Feb 2019

Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 15 PRs in 4 months

Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the creation and modification of Conda recipes within the bioconda-recipes repository. Their work included the initial setup of recipes for new bioinformatics tools such as AdmixTools, RFMix, Alder, MALDER and finestructure, along with updates to existing recipes, like Eigensoft and r-pophelper. The commits involved modifying build scripts and patch files to ensure the correct installation and functionality of these bioinformatics packages. This included adaptations for different operating systems and installing R packages via the R command line tool.

recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management

ryanraaum/oldowan.mtdna

Mar 2009 - Aug 2015

Contributions:12 commits, 5 pushes in 6 years 6 months

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