Email: derekjordanhart@gmail.com
Cell: 303-501-7428
Experience
Black Canyon Consulting (Contractor for the NIH)
Data Wrangler, February 2025 - present
- Designed and implemented a database-backed web application with Flask, Dash, and DuckDB to analyze petabyte-scale data storage trends for the Sequence Read Archive.
ASRT, Inc. (Contractor for the CDC)
Data Manager, December 2022 - January 2025
Developed and deployed whole-genome sequencing analysis pipelines with Snakemake and Nextflow for rapid nationwide surveillance and research of measles and mumps.
Built a cloud-based ETL pipeline with Azure Data Factory and Databricks to automate quality assessment of >100 molecular laboratories worldwide.
Created an interactive RShiny dashboard to visualize a global measles sequence database (MeaNS2). Used Javascript libraries D3 and Highcharts to display phylogenetic trees and geographic map plots.
Education
PhD Physics - Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
August 2016 - October 2022
- Thesis: Hybridization and dehybridization of short oligonucleotides subject to weak tension
- Subfield: single-molecule biophysics
- Research Lab: Harold Kim Lab
- Award: Georgia Tech Institute Fellowship
BS Engineering Physics - Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
August 2013 - May 2016
- Award: Physics Faculty Distinguished Graduate
Publications
M. Jumabaeva, E. Lopareva, M. Chen, D. Park, D. Hart, B. Bankamp, A. Beck. Validation of High-Throughput Metagenomic Sequencing of Measles, Mumps and Rubella Viruses Using Simultaneous Complex Probe Enrichment. (in preparation),
E. Tiller, A. Mathis, A. Beck, D. Hart, C. Dixey, D. Sugerman. Measles outbreak among undervaccinated children during an unseasonal increase of respiratory virus activity in pediatric populations Columbus, OH, 2022. (in preparation),
B. Bankamp, G. Kim, D. Hart, A. Beck, Y. Zhang, M. Mamou, A. Penedos, R. Evans, P. Rota. Global update on measles molecular epidemiology. (2024). Vaccines.
A. Beck, E. Lopareva, H. Hwang, D. Hart, M. de Almeida, P. Rota, B. Bankamp. Rapid Communication: Evaluation of the sensitivity of a measles diagnostic real-time RT-PCR assay incorporating recently observed priming mismatch variants, 2024. (2024). Eurosurveillance.
D. Hart, J. Jeong, J. Gumbart, H. Kim. Weak tension accelerates hybridization and dehybridization of short oligonucleotides. (2023). Nucleic Acids Research.