Dan Knights
Knight Lab
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
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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
.
more...
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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)
My solutions to Rubik's cube
"The Most Concise Understandable Solution to Rubik's Cube Ever"
(using group theory), Copyright 2006.
"Revolving Door Solution"
, Copyright 2005.
My
essay
on the cube
Vipassana
The Letter Wee