Emily Dolson
Research Scientist at DolsonLab, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorEmily Dolson is a research scientist and assistant professor in East Lansing with 13 years of experience applying digital techniques to study eco-evolutionary dynamics in spatially heterogeneous environments, including evolution in cancer and digital organisms. She combines quantitative modeling with hands-on software development, contributing backend improvements to the widely used Avida digital evolution platform—adding resource-collection instructions, probabilistic mechanics, and new complexity measures. Her work bridges theoretical ecology, evolutionary computation, and practical tooling, enabling reproducible experiments across spatially structured systems. Colleagues know her for turning nuanced biological questions into robust simulation code and for uncovering subtle eco-evolutionary effects that emerge only in spatially explicit models.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
computer-architecture10
aida10
cpu-architecture10
avi10
microarchitecture10
ida10
instruction-set10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
data-structures9
optimization8
optimisation8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
devosoft/avida
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 15 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to the Avida project by adding and modifying stoichiometry code within the core CPU implementation. Their work included adding new instructions related to resource collection and modification, fixing bugs, and making certain collect instructions probabilistic. The user also refactored and implemented a new measure of complexity barriers by writing to files. Furthermore, they fixed a bug in the task grid and other dump actions.
avida
hincz-lab/Evolution-Counterdiabatic-Driving
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 release, 67 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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