Phillip Compeau
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Compeau is a teaching-focused professor and higher-education leader who bridges computer science, AI, and biology, with a track record of student-centered programs and global online learning reaching over a million learners. At Carnegie Mellon, he founded the undergraduate program in computational biology and co-founded the precollege program, later serving as Assistant Department Head and establishing two campus-wide biotech industry fairs annually. He is a Coursera instructor for the Bioinformatics Specialization and co-founded Rosalind, an e-learning platform that has reached hundreds of thousands, with content powering a bestselling textbook he co-authored. He also leads publishing through Philomath Press, authoring books at the intersection of quantitative and scientific disciplines, including Biological Modeling: A Short Tour. He earned an MBA with honors from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business and currently serves as Assistant Dean for Innovation in Computing Education at CMU SCS, expanding free online education at scale. A trained mathematician with a PhD from UC San Diego and a BS in Mathematics from Davidson College, he combines rigorous theory with scalable teaching and research, and is based in Pittsburgh.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
GPA: 4.01, GPA: 4.01 at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
English
Github Skills (7)
scales10
modeling10
bioinformatics9
python8
sequencing4
molecule3
assembler3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
phcompeau/biological_modeling_course
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:441 pushes in 1 year 2 months
phcompeau/ProgrammingForScientists2022
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:47 commits, 38 pushes in 2 months
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