Kevin received a BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in Immunology from Harvard University. He is currently a Research Scientist at Wellesley College, a women's college in Eastern Massachusetts, where he studies the relationship between the gut microbiome and childhood cognitive development, and is the author of the Microbiome.jl and GenderInference.jl packages. He was awarded a grant from the Sloan Foundation through Julia Computing to develop course materials for Biology majors at Wellesley to learn to program in julia.