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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, WA

- Develop novel association methods for the analysis of TOPMed WGS data with binary and continuous outcomes.- Optimize and apply statistical methods to estimate relatedness and population structure among >100,000 participants.- Interpret genetic variants and regions that yield statistically significant associations with disease.- Collaborate with members.

- One of 16 fellows chosen to carry out their research proposal on a government-funded cloud computing environment, BioData Catalyst.- Implement in CWL a statistical method to simultaneously test multiple, correlated phenotypes for genetic association.- Apply the statistical method to a set of over 50,000 participants with 7 correlated traits; publish any.

Greater New York City Area

- Analyzed WGS and SNP chip genotype data, including QC processes and association analyses.- Advised collaborators with regard to methods and procedures to implement on datasets.- Benchmarked new methods and tools against existing pipeline processes.- Presented results to internal and external collaborators.

- Investigated evidence for assortative mating among mate pairs, using genome-wide SNP data.- Compared X chromosome ancestry proportions to those estimated across the autosomes.- Presented key results at grant meetings.- Was a core member of the data cleaning team for the Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA), Genomics and Randomized Trials Network.

- Taught 11 weekly discussion sessions to a class of 25 statistics and biostatistics graduate students.- Presented review sheets and generated practice questions for students.- Wrote homework keys and graded weekly homework.

South San Francisco, CA

- Wrote an R package, cpvSNP, for submission to BioConductor that implements methods to combine association test p-values into gene sets.- Presented results and code to senior members of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology department.- Collaborated with members of the Human Genetics department to obtain data sets and aid in interpretation of.

Bellevue, WA

- Taught the PTC Windchill software application to over 2,000 users on the Boeing 787 project throughout the course of one year.- Other projects included collaboration with a group of international IBM clients to prepare for a seven month software implementation, and development of comprehensive training and adoption programs for software implementations.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Applicable Mathematics, Graduate With Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics