Leonardo Collado-Torres

Leonardo Collado-Torres

Investigator @ LIBD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics @ JHBSPH

Lieber Institute for Brain Development

Johns Hopkins Blomberg School of Public Health

At the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), I lead the R/Bioconductor-powered Team Data Science group. I am also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostastics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Additionally, I am interested in outreach activities as a board member of the Community of Bioinformatics Software Developers.

As a quick background, I graduated from the Undergraduate Program on Genomic Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2009 and worked for two years at Winter Genomics analyzing high-throughput sequencing data. I then got a PhD in 2016 from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health thanks to a CONACyT scholarship. There I worked with Jeff Leek and Andrew Jaffe in developing derfinder and recount. I then worked ~ 4 years as a Staff Scientist and Research Scientist in Andrew Jaffe’s lab on a variety of data analysis projects. I became a principal investigator in September 2020.

Every day I use R and Bioconductor, and on some days I write R packages. Occasionally I write blog posts about them and other tools. I’m a co-founder of the LIBD rstats club and the CDSB community of R and Bioconductor developers in Mexico and Latin America, that we described at the R Consortium website. In the past, I also served on the Bioconductor Community Advisory Board and the advisory board for rOpenSci’s Statistical Software Peer Review.

Interests
  • Genomics
  • R programming
  • Biostatistics
  • Teaching
  • Diversity
Education
  • PhD in Biostatistics, 2016

    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Bachelor in Genomic Sciences (LCG), 2009

    National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

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