As an entrepreneur, I'm the founder of CardVine, which lets you make and share attractive, always-up-to-date online contact cards using a computer or smartphone. Previously, I created Evarium, a Facebook application that puts an animated simulation of organic evolution on your Facebook profile page. I also contributed to SICStus Prolog, a full-featured and widely used implementation of the Prolog programming language.
As a scientist, I study evolution, ecology, and genetics, particularly the interplay between traits and their genetic bases in adaptive evolution. Most of my work is mathematical, statistical, and/or computational. For example, colleagues and I used statistical analyses of regulatory regions of human genes to show the regulation of many genes underlying neural development and function and/or carbohydrate metabolism has evolved adaptively in the human lineage (Haygood et al, 2007).
I have a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from the University of California, Irvine, a master's degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a doctorate in population biology from the University of California, Davis; at Davis, my dissertation won the Merton Love award for best dissertation of the year on evolution, ecology, or ethology. I held postdoctoral fellowships in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and biology at Duke University; at Duke, I was supported by a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biological Informatics. In 2009, I left academia, having concluded I could pursue my interests more happily and productively as an independent entrepreneur.
