Gianluca Baio
Professor Of Statistics And Health Economics
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGianluca Baio is a Professor of Statistics and Health Economics at University College London with over a decade of academic leadership translating Bayesian methods into health-technology assessment and policy-relevant research. He combines deep methodological expertise in Bayesian inference (WinBUGS, INLA) and frequentist tools (R, Stata, SPSS, Matlab) with hands-on open-source involvement, notably improving the Quarto CLI documentation front-end to enhance user navigation. Fluent in English, Italian and Spanish, he has a long track record of teaching, mentoring and publishing across multidisciplinary evidence synthesis initiatives. Colleagues value him for turning complex statistical theory into practical, reproducible analyses that inform healthcare decisions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics, PhD, Applied Statistics, High School Diploma, Piero Gobetti, PhD, Applied Statistics; Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Statistics, PhD, Applied Statistics, High School Diploma, Piero Gobetti, PhD, Applied Statistics; Science and Technology at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Firenze
University of Florence
English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
41reputation
380reached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (11)
html10
ejs10
javascript9
website-development8
blogdown6
survival-analysis6
mybinder6
xaringan6
mathjax6
r6
yaml6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quarto-dev/quarto-cli
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 6 days
Contributions summary:Gianluca primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and navigation of the Quarto CLI documentation. Their contributions included modifying the HTML templates to ensure external links in the navbar open in new tabs and adding the `target` attribute to navitem links for improved control over link behavior. Furthermore, the user reverted changes to address potential issues and merge conflicts related to navbar functionality and overall code integration.
pandocpublishinglatexscientificmarkdown
giabaio/survHEhmc
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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