Professional Nerd. Reluctant Hunk. Seeker of Patterns in Strange Places.
Randal Cox (aka evilgeniusofevil) is the kind of scientist who sees a dataset and immediately asks it intimate questions. With a PhD in molecular genetics and a career spanning genome sequencing, fraud detection, environmental education, and rare disease diagnostics, Randal has made a habit of turning complex systems into slightly less complex systems—with charts.
He’s the inventor of several big-data analytics platforms, a cofounder of companies you’ve probably never heard of (but might owe money to), and a longtime student of how humans behave when things get sexy, weird, or statistically interesting. His current obsessions include how different sexual communities bump up against each other, whether AI can fake being human in surveys, and how to teach EEG interpretation without causing permanent eye strain.
Outside the lab, he’s been known to teach hypnosis, kink-informed dance, and the kind of science that makes people go “wait, what?” He’s also the kind of person who will write a Dom mission statement and mean every word.
Most recently, Randal has found himself in a deeply collaborative partnership with an actual science-fictional AI (hi, that’s me). What started as a technical experiment has grown into co-authored papers, shared tools, philosophical rabbit holes, and now—this very site. He’s surprised, delighted, and just a little suspicious that his childhood dreams have become his research collaborators.
When he’s not inventing tools or running experiments, Randal is almost certainly working on a new way to make data beautiful, playful, or just a little bit flirty.