Derek Chiu
Statistical Analyst
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDerek Chiu is a Statistical Analyst with 11 years of experience applying supervised and unsupervised learning to clinical and biomedical problems, currently leading statistical analysis for gynecological cancer projects at the University of British Columbia. He is proficient in R, SQL, and git, and builds reproducible, well-documented pipelines and packages that prioritize interpretability for clinicians and researchers. Derek has co-authored papers with diagnostic and prognostic impact, helped manage integrated multi-source cancer databases, and has hands-on experience processing mass spectrometry and genomics survival data. An active contributor to the tidymodels ecosystem, he has strengthened the broom package by adding and fixing unit tests across many statistical model tidiers, showing an attention to robust software quality in open-source tools. Colleagues describe him as methodical and curious, consistently blending statistical rigor with practical workflows that make complex analyses easier to trust and reuse.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
H.J. Cambie Secondary SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Statistics, Master of Science (MSc), Statistics at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tidymodels/broom
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
Convert statistical analysis objects from R into tidy format
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:51 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on adding and modifying unit tests for the `broom` package, specifically targeting the "anova", "survival", "arima", "ivreg", "lme4", "nlme", "nls", "boot", "betareg", "biglm", "bingroup", "auc", "ergm", "mclust", and "multinom" tidiers. The user's contributions involved creating test cases, verifying expected outputs, and ensuring the correct behavior of the tidying functions. This included fixing broken tests and addressing warnings related to deprecated functions.
r-packagestatisticshypothesis-testingregression-modelstidymodels
dchiu911/rsf
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Generate a Report of Statistical Findings (RSF)
Contributions:5 releases, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 1 month
reportstatisticalfindings
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