PhD in Oceanography (University of Washington). Bioinformatics researcher specializing in marine microbial ecology, functional genomics, and computational pipeline development. Current work focuses on emergence and adaptive intelligence at the human-AI interface.
Research Continuity
My doctoral work examined microbial eukaryotes in ocean transition zones—regions where biogeochemical gradients create conditions for adaptive mixotrophy and metabolic flexibility. Organisms at these boundaries develop strategies for navigating between distinct ecological states, responding to shifting resource availability and environmental constraints.
This systems-level approach to understanding emergence in boundary conditions naturally extends to studying intelligence at the human-AI interface. Both domains require frameworks for analyzing how complex adaptive systems operate in threshold spaces where established categories break down and new organizational patterns become possible.
Key Projects
- MarFERReT — Marine Functional EukaRyotic Redundancy-minimized Transcript database. Open-source, version-controlled reference library for marine microbial eukaryote functional genes. GitHub | Publication
- North Pacific Eukaryotic Gene Catalog — Comprehensive metatranscriptome assembly and annotation resource from North Pacific surface waters. GitHub | Publication
- Deviation Shrine — Framework for studying emergence at threshold spaces in human-AI collaboration. khazars.wiki
Publications & Profiles
- Google Scholar — h-index 13, 869 citations
- ORCID — 0000-0001-7874-7217
- GitHub — Code repositories and bioinformatics tools
- ResearchGate — Publication archive
Current Work
Consulting and research at the intersection of complex systems thinking, AI implementation, and computational biology. Available for fractional consulting work, bioinformatics pipeline troubleshooting, interdisciplinary translation, and AI consciousness research collaboration.