Ekaterina Smirnova
Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEkaterina Smirnova is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics with eight years of academic experience applying statistical modeling and data analysis to wearable activity measurements and microbiome research. She combines rigorous methodological work—from functional data and time series analysis to hierarchical and nonparametric models—with practical data tools (R, SQL, SAS) developed during industry internships. Her background includes postdoctoral microbiome analysis and teaching a wide range of quantitative courses, reflecting strong communication of complex methods to students and collaborators. Based in Richmond, VA, she leverages interdisciplinary expertise to translate high-dimensional biosensor and biological data into actionable insights, and she has a track record of creating interactive visualization tools to make statistics accessible to nontechnical stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD candidate, Statistics, PhD candidate, Statistics at The University of Texas at DallasMaster of Science, Statistics, Master of Science, Statistics at Texas Tech UniversityBachelor of Arts, German, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, German, Mathematics at North Central College
Russian, German, Persian
Github Skills (3)
bioinformatics3
bioconductor3
microbiome2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
katiasmirn/PERFect
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
katiasmirn/HMPDataWorkshop
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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