Steven Koch Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Verona, Wisconsin

Population health analytics, data warehouse application dev, mostly SQL Server

Verona, Wisconsin

Reporting developer for Healthy Planet, Epic's population health application.

With in-person assistance, I have helped over a dozen faculty and students become new users of our high performance computing center. These users come from a wide range of disciplines, including business, bioinformatics, engineering, and political science. This is the most fun part of my current job, which also includes data management consulting. My favorite success is having helped a professor move from SAS on his desktop to multi-threaded python (NetworKit) on 8-core nodes, reducing his longest computation time from one month to 4 days.

Albuquerque, Nm

Helping campus researchers will all aspects of research data, especially data analysis, parallel computing, and data publishing. The most exciting aspect of my work is helping new users of high performance computing (HPC) or parallel computing successfully move from desktop analysis to using machines in our Center for Advanced Research Computing.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

As an independent contractor, I created predictive models for customer retention products offered by Aumanil. Models built using python, developed using historical data, tested on current customer data.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). One large grant (DTRA, \$1.5M, co-PI with Atlas), developed optical tweezers and automated kinesin gliding motility assays. Four Ph.D. students graduated. Mentored 8 undergrad. researchers. Taught more than 700 students, mostly undergrad. courses, with excellent reviews. Open-science advocate.

Led an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs to design and construct state of the art single-molecule manipulation capabilities for the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT). Developed MEMS technology for applications in biophysics and nanotechnology.

Developed and characterized strategies for stabilizing kinesin and microtubules (a biomolecular motor system) for use in synthetic systems (DARPA funded).

Along with Richard Yeh, designed and constructed a state of the art optical tweezers system for single-molecule biophysics experiments. System included laser optics, microscopy, electronics, digital feedback data acquisition and data analysis software. The optical tweezers system was used to take the data for most of the first papers to come out of the lab, including two in PNAS, two in Molecular Cell, one PRL, three in Biophysical Journal, and one in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. I also used these tweezers for the invention of a new single molecule technique for investigating protein-DNA interactions by unzipping single DNA molecules.

Ph.D., M.S., Physics / Biophysics

Activities and Societies: American Physical Society, Biophysical Society, NIH Molecular Biophysics Trainee, US Dept. Ed. Teaching.

B.S., Physics

Activities and Societies: American Physical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Tenor Sax in the Michigan Marching Band (Rank Leader 1995).