Stephen is a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He obtained his PhD in Bioinformatics from The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, and a Post-Doctoral training in Data Science and Molecular Evolution at the same University. He lectures and gives workshops in statistics, bioinformatics, metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, metagenomics, data science, machine learning and Geographical Information Systems in developed and developing countries. He is also a Senior Data Scientist/Co-founder of Patira Data Science http://patiradatascience.com. He has 15 years of experience in Bioinformatics and Data Science.