Jeremiah grew up in Waseca, Minn., and studied applied physics at Cornell. He joined the Harvard MD-PhD program in 2010 and initially worked on radiation treatment planning software with David Craft. He joined the bioinformatics PhD program and Rameen Beroukhim’s lab in 2012, where he has worked on genome assembly, variant detection, and analysis of rearrangements in large collections of cancer genomes. He is the primary developer of the rearrangement detection tool SvABA and the SeqLib C++ sequence analysis API, and has worked extensively with data from ICGC. After receiving his PhD, he completed the last two years of medical school at Harvard and is a resident in Medicine at UCSF.

Fun fact: Jeremiah recently found a live rattlesnake on a hike in the Blue Hills near Boston but did not stop long enough to make its acquaintance.

Favorite quote: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” –Einstein