Scott Emrich
Program Director - Data Science And Engineering PhD Program
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Emrich is a bioinformatics and computational biology leader with 15+ years of experience translating genomic science into scalable computational tools and academic programs. He holds a PhD from Iowa State and a dual BS in Biology and Computer Science, and his NIH-funded research spans genome-focused bioinformatics, parallel and distributed computing, and long-read sequencing applications. After a decade at Notre Dame in roles from assistant professor to Director of Bioinformatics, he is an Associate Professor in EECS at the University of Tennessee and the Program Director for the Data Science and Engineering PhD program at UT-ORII. Known for bridging wet-lab problems and high-performance computation, he won ISU’s Research Excellence and the Zaffrano Prize early in his career—an indicator of the enduring impact and rigor of his work.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at Iowa State UniversityBS, Biology and Computer Science, BS, Biology and Computer Science at Loyola University Maryland
English, German
Github Skills (11)
harness5
scale4
large-scale4
python4
grids3
iterative2
hybrid1
pytorch1
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
error-correction1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
semrich/CS140-21
Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
Code repository for CS140 (Spring 2021 at UT Knoxville)
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
javacode-repositoryspringknoxville
semrich/cs202-22
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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