Teaching & Outreach
Teaching
Thesis Advisor, Computational Sciences Graduate Program
San Francisco State University, 2024–present
Guest Lecturer, Environmental Microbial Genomics
Stanford University, 2020–present
Guest Lecturer, Foundations in Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Science
San Francisco State University, 2024
Instructor, Deep-sea Ecology & Sustainability Workshop
Global Subseafloor Ecosystem and Sustainability Program, Hangzhou, China, 2025
Selected Talks
Leveraging AI to Investigate Real-World Biological Problems
San Francisco State University AI Symposium, 2025
Agentic AI for Every Lab: How BioKEA & Agentis Turbo-Charge Discovery from Data to Publication
UC Berkeley Microbiome Science Symposium, 2025
Submarines, Supercomputers, Software, and Sequence Data: Aquatic Ecology Enabled by Computational Biology
Cal State Monterey Bay, 2024 · SFSU Estuary & Ocean Science Center, 2022
Service & Leadership
- Editorial Board — Scientific Data (2026–2028); ISME Communications (2024–2027)
- Advisory Board — UNESCO Global Subseafloor Ecosystem and Sustainability Program (2025–2030)
- Committee Member — ISME Climate Change Committee (2024–present)
- Expert — UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment (2024–present)
- Working Group — UN Ocean Decade Vision 2030, Working Group 2 (2023–2024)
- Panelist — NASA Astrobiology: Habitable Worlds (2024); NSF Understanding the Rules of Life (2020)
- Reviewer — 23 peer-reviewed journals including Nature Biotechnology
Outreach
Science communication and K–12 education are central to expanding access to ocean and earth sciences. Activities have included:
- Judge — Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair (2009–2015)
- Lecturer — Community College Instructors Workshop, C-DEBI (2016)
- Workshop Leader — Microbial life and astrobiology presentations at Kaimuki Middle School, Moloka'i High School, and Sacred Hearts Academy (2013–2015)
- Tour Guide — Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Community Education Program (2009–2014)
- Co-organizer — C-MORE Networking Workshop, ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting (2013); C-MORE Careers in Ocean Sciences Workshop (2012)
- Participant — Deep Earth Academy Ship-to-Shore Scientist Interviews & Activities (2011, 2013)