Nikolas is a small business owner. He graduated from UC San Diego in 2024 with a B.S. in Cognitive Science, specializing in machine learning and neural computation. In 2023 He joined the Fjord Phyto Project as a volunteer, and began his journey as a bioinformatician under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Cusick and Christian Johnson. While volunteering for Fjord Phyto he identified areas of friction in the research process, particularly regarding colocation of data points across modality, time, and space. His work with GASP has been focused on developing a desktop application (Poleshift) that preemptively addresses those areas of concern in addition to providing immediate, actionable analysis to researchers in the field. Through close collaboration with scientists in the field, particularly Christian Johnson and Dr. Emma George, a beta version has been completed for use in live contexts.

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