...It was enjoyable to make the "final four" of the 21 high-school teams competing at the Corning, NY chapter of the American Chemical Society's May 1981 "Chem Bowl". Virginia Tech favored me with a full 1st-year of advanced-placement (AP) chemistry credits. Chemistry is all about the slots in an atom's electronic "outer-shell." We must also attend to concentrations & proportions. (read more)
...Recently, I have had the pleasure of helping a number of students in this area. One student needed a statistics course to get his degree in Geography, but had failed two times previously. He told me he was about ready to give up. (read more)
...My work involves developing interpretable deep-learning methods for evolutionary biology, and I heavily rely on R and Python for scientific analysis. As far as R goes, I've developed and contributed to several R packages, including 'Revticulate' (a package for interfacing with the Bayesian phylo... (read more)