connor-french/intro-r

An introductory R workshop for the CUNY Graduate Center Digital Research Institute

Hi, I'm Connor!

I am a research scientist and recently earned my PhD in the Mike Hickerson and Ana Carnaval labs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

I’m currently on the job market! My ideal role would involve taking advantage of my strong computational and scientific background to solve difficult data problems in science and business. I love each stage of the process- planning, execution, and communication to stakeholders. Through my PhD I gained extensive communication skills through my participation in the Graduate Center Digital Fellowship, a technical think tank for the university. I am particularly drawn to mission-driven companies that can take advantage of my domain-specific knowledge in bioinformatics, genomics, climate, and/or geospatial analytics, but I am open to taking my passion for data science and analytics into unexpected directions. As a data scientist, I particularly enjoy creating reproducible data analytics and machine learning pipelines, creating engaging data visualizations and dashboards, and distilling complex results for a diversity of stakeholder audiences.

My academic research focuses on understanding how populations, species, and communities evolve in response to changing environments. I integrate species distribution modeling using earth observation data with population genomics to address these questions and develop open-source software to facilitate the scientific community's ability to solve these difficult problems.

I’m passionate about data science, photography, music, and my dog Buckley!

Topic	Project	Links
Software	spaceprime: a Python package that facilitates the creation and analysis of spatially gridded coalescent models in the msprime library	Code Documentation
	roleShiny: a GUI app for education and research using the Rules of Life Engine model	Code Website
Academic publications	Elevational range impacts migration rates and the relationship between habitat suitability and deme size in Brazilian Enyalius lizards	Code in prep
	Global distribution of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity	Code Paper
	Forest cover and geographical distance influence fine-scale genetic structure of leaf-toed geckos in the tropical dry forests of western Mexico	Code Paper