David Baranger
Assistant Professor at Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Baranger is an Assistant Professor and neuroscientist with nine years of research experience probing substance use and mood disorders through neuroimaging, genomics, and developmental perspectives. His work spans rigorous longitudinal, familial, and expression-based designs to untangle causal genomic relationships with brain structure and function, and he has developed multivariate and machine-learning approaches to predict depression and risk across the lifespan. He trained at Washington University in St. Louis and the NIMH, bringing a mix of computational biomarker development and translational focus to clinical neuroscience. Based in Milwaukee, he is also an enthusiastic educator and mentor who bridges data-intensive methods with questions about real-world risk and resilience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience, Bachelor's degree, Neuroscience at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (23)
tidyverse10
tsne10
dplyr9
structural-equation-modeling8
simulation8
r8
gwas6
factor-analysis6
missing-data6
ggplot5
rcppeigen5
psychometrics5
imputation5
r-package5
statistical-genetics4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dbaranger/InteractionPoweR
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
InteractionPoweR: Power analysis for interactions via simulation in R
Contributions:45 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
rsimulation
WashU-BG/PCE_MRI
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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