Senior Software Developer and Librarian for GW Libraries and Academic Innovation.
Dan collaborates with colleagues in the Scholarly Technology Group on software development projects including GW ScholarSpace, Social Feed Manager, and others. Dan teaches numerous workshops on R, Python, open and reproducible research, and other topics, and shares his skills and insight with the GW community by providing individualized consultations to help GW students, faculty, and researchers succeed in their projects involving programming and coding and data analysis/data visualization projects.
Dan is also a PhD student in the Health Data Science, Bioinformatics program offered by the GW Milken School of Public Health, and, as an adjunct instructor, co-created and taught the Introduction to R Programming in Public Health and Biomedical Research course.
Dan holds a BS in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University, an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and recently earned an MS in Health & Biomedical Data Science, Applied Bioinformatics from GWU. Dan is also a certified Project Management Professional and a certified Data Carpentries/Software Carpentries instructor.
Github: https://github.com/kerchner
