Daniel Chen is a graduate student in the interdisciplinary PhD program in genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology (GBCB) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).  He is involved with Software Carpentry as an instructor, a mentoring committee member, and currently serves as the assessment committee chair. He completed his master's in public health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in Epidemiology with a certificate in Advanced Epidemiology and is currently extending his master's thesis work in the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory under the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute on attitude diffusion in social networks.