Cooper Koers

Founder @ Organic Intelligence

About

Senior student-athlete at Princeton University concentrating in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a passion for systems science and personalized medicine.

Country

United States

City

Indianapolis

Industry

Biotechnology

Skill

Dynamic Programming, Large Language Models (LLM), Combinatorial Optimization, Software Packaging, Python (Programming Language), Java, R, Genetic Algorithms, Data Structures, Evolutionary Biology, Genetic Analysis, Vim, Snakemake, Slurm Workload Manager, VCF Tools, String Manipulation, Research

Experience

Founder

Organic Intelligence

2025-8 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Exploring individual biological landscapes to draw precise therapeutic opportunity

Undergraduate Bioinformatics Researcher

Princeton University

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Archaic Hominin Phylogeny Investigation - Supported archaic human phylogenies from conserved DNA SNP distributions across genomes Simulation Analysis of Evolutionary Pressures in Somatic Mutation Data - Explored implications of dN/dS values for somatic mutation datasets regarding evolutionary pressures - Developed software suite for simulation data used in paper under review Non-canonical Tumor Transcriptome Exploration - Investigating trends within non-canonical transcripts from TCGA cancer datasets

Genetic Medicine TDA Intern

Eli Lilly and Company

2025-5 - 2025-8 · 4 mos

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Developed novel in-house tool to optimize cDNA sequences that improved upon previous methods using a combination of language models and algorithmic design - Software developed utilized in current genetic medicine early-stage drug development pipeline