Benjamin Deonovic
Senior Statistician
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Deonovic is a Senior Statistician with 12 years of applied research experience across biomedical, agricultural, and educational measurement contexts, now working at Children's Minnesota. He holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa with a focus on Bayesian methods and statistical genetics, and brings strong computational skills in R, C/C++, Julia, and Python. At Corteva and ACT he translated complex experimental problems into robust statistical solutions, and his open-source contributions to JuliaStats/Distributions.jl include discrete truncated distributions and a faster Poisson Binomial PMF, reflecting both theoretical depth and performance-minded coding. Comfortable moving between research and production environments, he combines domain knowledge in genetics and agriscience with practical experience building reusable statistical tools. Colleagues rely on him for clear experimental design, rigorous inference, and reproducible computational workflows.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Mathematics, 3.84, BS, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Mathematics, 3.84 at Iowa State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics at University of Iowa
English, Bosnian
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Github Skills (18)
statistics10
distributions10
probability-distribution10
julia10
data-science9
testing9
file-upload9
initialization9
algorithm7
algorithms7
data-structure7
data-structures7
ruby-on-rails6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaStats/Distributions.jl
May 2015 - Oct 2020
A Julia package for probability distributions and associated functions.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the `distributions.jl` package, focusing on probability distributions and associated functions. Their work involved extending the `Truncated` distribution to handle discrete cases, implementing and testing various statistical functions within the context of truncated distributions, and optimizing the performance of the Poisson Binomial PMF calculation. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the documentation for Gamma distribution and fixed issues related to the VonMises distribution.
juliastatisticsdata-scienceprobability-distributions
bdeonovic/IDPASE.jl
Aug 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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