Daniel Himmelstein

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About Daniel Himmelstein

See https://dhimmel.com for up-do-date information. See https://github.com/dhimmel/ for what I'm currently up Some old text: I’m a data scientist studying human disease. Believing that computer science, biology, and statistics are more powerful when practiced together, I focus on cross-disciplinary approaches for discovery. Supported by a National Science Foundation fellowship, I’m a PhD candidate in the UCSF Biological & Medical Informatics program. Before coming to UCSF, I conducted research at Dartmouth Medical School, Cornell University, and the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. As an undergraduate at Cornell, I majored in biostatistics with an emphasis in genomics and computer science. At Cornell, I competed on the policy debate team. My debate partner and I remain the only team in the university’s history to have qualified for the National Debate Tournament three times. Through debate, I developed a passion for communication—a passion which I apply to my career in science. I aim to make science accessible, not only within academia by supporting the freedom of knowledge, but also more broadly by supporting a scientific discourse that engages the public.