Summary
Gabriel Franco is a bioinformatics scientist and PhD statistician with over a decade of experience translating complex biological data into actionable insights across academia, industry and consulting. He founded SOS Estatística and has delivered 80+ medical and applied statistics projects since 2011, while also leading statistical initiatives at Syngenta and product R&D at Jacobs Douwe Egberts. At Amsterdam UMC he develops end-to-end bioinformatics pipelines for large international studies on inherited cardiac disorders, combining sequence processing with rigorous statistical analysis. Fluent in R and LaTeX with strong applied ML and big-data skills, he pairs deep theoretical training in mathematical statistics with practical tool-building (including R Shiny dashboards) to move analyses into decision-ready outputs. A former football player and open-source enthusiast, he brings both team-oriented leadership and entrepreneurial instincts to interdisciplinary research.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematical Statistics and Probability at Universidade Estadual de Campinas