Jacob Fiksel
Senior Preclinical Research Statistician
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Fiksel is a senior preclinical research statistician with 11 years of experience applying advanced biostatistical methods across industry and academia, currently supporting translational work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He holds a PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins, where his dissertation on Bayesian quantification learning informed mortality surveillance in Mozambique, and he later developed EHR analysis methods as a postdoc at UPenn. Jacob has led biostatistics projects at Janssen and contributed to cancer detection, aging, and global health research, blending methodological rigor with practical preclinical decision-making. Comfortable with both academic research and pharmaceutical timelines, he brings deep domain knowledge in Bayesian methods and causal/real-world data analysis to experimental design and regulatory-focused studies. An educator and collaborator early in his career, he still leverages mentoring and reproducible-analysis habits developed tutoring and research-assistant roles.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Budapest Semester in MathematicsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBachelor's degree, Mathematics and Statistics, Cum Laude, thesis honors, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Statistics, Cum Laude, thesis honors at Pomona College
Spanish
Github Skills (66)
oauth9
multiple-repositories9
rails8
access-control7
ruby7
variable-selection7
r7
bayesian-data-analysis7
stan7
r-package7
github-api-v37
sequencing7
bayesian7
jags7
monte-carlo6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jfiksel/github-classroom-for-students
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
jfiksel/cluster-example
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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