Benilton Carvalho
Associate Professor
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolBenilton Carvalho is an Associate Professor and former Chair of Statistics at UNICAMP with 20 years’ experience developing statistical methods for high-throughput biological data and mentoring the next generation of biostatisticians. He combines deep academic research (PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins) with practical bioinformatics software engineering, as a leading Bioconductor contributor and author of widely used packages such as oligo and crlmm. His work spans microarrays and next-generation sequencing, experimental design for large-scale studies, and production-ready data products implemented in R, Python, SQL and SAS. Beyond publications, he has shaped institutional research strategy as an advisor to UNICAMP’s vice-president of research and led bioinformatics labs that translate methods into community tools. A practical statistician at heart, he is known for bridging rigorous methodology with open-source software that directly enables reproducible biomedical analyses.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityM.Sc., Statistics, M.Sc., Statistics at UNICAMP
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (42)
next-generation-sequencing10
rna-seq10
genomics10
variants9
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
rio9
sequencing9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
immunology9
nf-core8
python8
conda8
singularity8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
me315-unicamp/me315-unicamp.github.io
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 94 pushes in 5 years 3 months
labbcb/labbcb.github.io
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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