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Dan Knights
Knight Lab Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado at Boulder danknights at gmail dot com |
Research interests
- Computational Biology
- Machine Learning
- Predictive microbiome modeling
- High-throughput sequencing analysis
In the news
- My PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. on bioreactor communities was declared a "must read" by the Faculty of 1000.
- My paper on mosquito attractiveness with Neils Verhulst et al. received extensive media coverage from NPR, Scientific American (podcast), Discover Magazine, MSNBC, and others.
- My Science paper with Gary Wu et al. was featured by Science Daily, Penn Medicine News at UPenn, in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology's Year in Review, and in the "Runners Up" for Science's Breakthrough of the Year.
- Coverage of my recent PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. by Discovery.com, Beer Universe, Cornell Chronicle and Daily Sun, and Science Daily.
- My other recent Science paper was covered in "Your gut microbes are what you eat", Science News.
- Knights et al. Cell Host & Microbe paper featured on Cell Host & Microbe's Most Read Articles.
- Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces featured by NPR, Scientific American, and WebMD, among others.
- MIENS paper featured on Nature home page, discussed in Nature Reviews Microbiology editorial: Context is key for sequence data.
Other links
- Curriculum vitae
- Brief Bio
- Speedcubing
- Official single solve: 11.93 seconds
- Official blindfolded solve (including memorization): 4 minutes, 38.71 seconds
- Unofficial average of 10 solves: 13.75 seconds
- Official world records: Single solve 16.71 seconds (2003), Average 20.00 seconds (2003)
- "The Most Concise Understandable Solution to Rubik's Cube Ever" (using group theory), Copyright 2006.
- "Revolving Door Solution", Copyright 2005.