My Bio

By day, I am the Chief Science Officer at Health Monitoring, a public health software company. We help epidemiologists make the most of the ever-increasing volume of available healthcare data. In my 10 years there, I have developed tools for:

• tracking pandemic influenza, Ebola and opioid overdoses
• expecting the unexpected at big events like the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions and Super Bowl XLVIII
• visualizing spatial trends in public health during severe weather like hurricanes and polar vortexes

and more! There are always new challenges, and I am grateful that I can see my work being put to use in ways that I hope are beneficial.

Like Batman, I had to hone a variety of skills to prepare for my current job. I studied biology and chemistry as an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon. I learned how to trap mosquitoes and build statistical models doing a PhD at Johns Hopkins' School of Public Health. I honed my software development and algorithm skills as a computational biology postdoc back at Carnegie Mellon.

By night, I write a weekly science & faith blog for InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network. I've been spotted on Facebook and occasionally in Sunday school classes explaining science (particularly evolutionary biology) to evangelical Christians. On new comic Wednesday, I'm reading X-Men books; on opening weekends I'm with my wife and two kids watching the latest Marvel or Star Wars film; and on game night I'm saving the world during a round of Pandemic because I'm still the same guy I was during the day.