Gavin Kelly
Statistics Lead
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Kelly is a Statistics Lead at the Francis Crick Institute with over nine years' experience in biostatistics and bioinformatics, grounded in a DPhil in Mathematics from Oxford and a first-class BSc from Bristol. He has led statistical strategy for sequencing and complex data analysis across academia and major cancer research organisations, progressing from senior research roles to principal biostatistician before his current leadership post. An expert in R and Bioconductor, he combines mathematical rigour with practical pipeline development for high-throughput sequencing studies. Gavin’s career spans both national measurement science and translational cancer research, giving him a rare blend of metrology-grade precision and applied biological insight. He is known for translating intricate statistical methods into reproducible, collaborator-friendly analyses that directly inform experimental decisions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil Mathematics, DPhil Mathematics at University of OxfordBsc 1st Class Hons Mathematics, Bsc 1st Class Hons Mathematics at University of Bristol
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
nextflow10
sequencing10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
rna-seq10
genomics10
nf-core10
r9
phylogenetic-trees8
latex8
reveal8
slideshow8
slide8
reveal-js7
fusion7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
crickbabs/BABS-RNASeq
May 2019 - Sep 2019
RNASeq Best Practice Analysis
Contributions:26 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
best-practicernaseqrna-seq
macroscian/R-Package
Nov 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
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