...I enjoy making sessions discursive, fun and interesting – tie in real-world applications and ethical questions, ask opinions and encourage students to think critically about any material they are presented. I’ve had many students succeed with this and find their passion in both the sciences and ... (read more)
...After that, I worked in government and industry for two years as a programmer on scientific and distributed computing projects. I then returned to graduate school, finishing with a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in computational genetics. Perl has been my go-to language for web scraping, data processing, and general automation for 20+ years. (read more)