Dr. Rebecca Dikow |
Genomics
Phylogenetics
Digital Humanities
Rebecca Dikow is a Research Data Scientist and leads the Smithsonian Data Science Lab. She leads projects in genomics, informatics, and machine learning.
Research Data Scientists
Mike Trizna |
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Museum Informatics
Mike Trizna is a Data Scientist with expertise in bioinformatics and machine learning. Mike leads the Smithsonian Carpentries.
Dr. Alex White |
Biogeography
Quantitative ecology
Statistics
Alex White is a Biodiversity Research Data Scientist with expertise in biogeography, quantitative ecology, and community phylogenetics. He is an Associate Editor for Ornithology.
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Affiliated Smithsonian Staff
Dr. Carlos Arias |
Genomics
Biogeography
Phylogenetics
Carlos Arias is a Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He develops genomic tools to investigate evolutionary questions about the unique fauna of the isthmus of Panama.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Richie Hodel |
Phylogenetics
Phenomics
Biogeography
Richie Hodel is developing methods to extract phenotypic trait data from digitzed botanical specimens to better understand the factors underlying patterns of diversity.
Dr. William Mattingly |
Natural Language Processing
Digital Humanities
William Mattingly is a historian developing methods to better understand complex historical themes in vast digital datasets of historical documents and images.
Dr. Jennifer Spillane |
Genomics
Marine Invertebrates
Tree of life
Jennifer Spillane is using machine learning to address DNA contamination in genome sequences of non-model organisms.
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Interns
Samiya Ali |
Digital Humanities
Machine learning
Samiya Ali is a UCSB-Smithsonian Scholars summer intern. Samiya is an undergraduate Data Science major at University of California-Santa Barbara.
Matt Bollinger |
Museum Informatics
Web Accessibility
Matt Bollinger is a Data Science Lab Graduate intern. Matt is working to build machine learning tools to enhance web Accessibility in digitized museum collections. He is a graduate student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
Amali McHie |
Digital Humanities
Museum Informatics
Amali McHie is an American Women’s History Initiative Becuase of Her Story summer intern. Amali in an undergraduate Software Engineering major at Kennesaw State.
Richard Montes Lemus |
Quantitative Ecology
Machine learning
Richard Montes Lemus is a UCSB-Smithsonian Scholars summer intern. Richard is an undergraduate Environmental Science major at University of California-Santa Barbara.
Natalie Nyborg |
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Natalie Nyborg is a Data Scinece Lab summer intern. Natalie in an undergraduate Bioinformatics major at Brigham Young University.
Zachary Willson |
Machine learning
Quantitative Ecology
Zachary Willson is a UCSB-Smithsonian Scholars summer intern. Zachary is an undergraduate Computer Science major at UC Davis.
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Research Associates
Dr. Paul Frandsen |
Genomics
Phylogenentics
Entomology
Paul Frandsen was a co-founder of the Data Science Lab and is an Assistant Professor of Plant and Wildlife Sciences at Brigham Young University.
Dr. Mirian Tsuchiya |
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Digital Humanities
Dr. Tsuchiya was the Smithsonian Data Science Lab Postdoctoral Fellow and is now an ORISE fellow at the FDA Center for Applied Food Safety.
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Lab Alumni
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Jenna Ekwealor |
Bioinformatics
Biogeography
Genomics
Jenna Ekwealor is a Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at San Francisco State University. She was previously a Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellow in the Data Science Lab. She studies adaptations for water and heat stress in desert mosses.
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Past Predoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Alex Robillard (University of Maryland; 2019-2021)
Past Interns
- Alan Feria (UCSB; June 2022–December 2022)
- Kayla Geronimo-Anctil (Cal State Channel Islands; June 2022–August 2022)
- Cristina Gonzalez (UC Davis; June 2022–August 2022)
- Zumonjay Jackson (East Los Angeles College; June 2022–August 2022)
- Madeline Bursell (BYU; May 2019–July 2019; June 2021–July 2022)
- Luis Figueroa (Cal State Channel Islands; June 2021–August 2021)
- Christelle Inema (University of Chicago; June 2021–August 2021)
- Dalila Lara (UCSB; June 2021–August 2021)
- Isabella Schrader (Marshall University; June 2021–August 2021)
- Alison Day (Stanford University; November 2020–June 2021)
- Sarah Agarrat (UMD; July 2019–August 2019)
- Tiana Curry (UCSB; July 2019–September 2019)
- Alejandro Sanchez (UC Davis; June 2019–August 2019)
- Seth Wilson (BYU; June 2019–August 2019)
- John Ferry (Duke University; June 2018–August 2018)
- Chandra Earl (UF; June 2018–July 2018)
- Katherine Jensen (UNCC; June 2018–July 2018)