Joseph Paulson
Senior Director And Head Of Early Development Biostatistics
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Paulson is a Senior Director and head of Early Development Biostatistics with 13 years of experience at the intersection of drug development, oncology, and data science. He blends leadership in biostatistics and business development with hands-on ML and high-dimensional genomics analysis, and has authored over 60 publications. His career spans industry and academia—from Genentech and Exelixis to adjunct roles at Yale and Penn State—where he mentors postdocs and teaches data science. He has led analytics initiatives for precision health and built data science teams and tooling at startups and pharma alike. An active contributor to bioinformatics software, he improved import and interoperability features in the widely used phyloseq R package, reflecting a practical commitment to reproducible genomic analysis. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a rigorous applied-math background with NSF- and Harvard-trained biostatistics expertise to translate complex genomic signals into clinical decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Uppsala UniversityNankai UniversityPh.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation at University of MarylandFellow, Biostatistics, Fellow, Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
English, Hebrew, Persian
Github Skills (4)
bioinformatics10
r10
testing9
data-analysis8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joey711/phyloseq
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
phyloseq is a set of classes, wrappers, and tools (in R) to make it easier to import, store, and analyze phylogenetic sequencing data; and to reproducibly share that data and analysis with others. See the phyloseq front page:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the `phyloseq` R package by improving the import functionality for biom files. They updated the `import_biom` function to handle biom-class objects and added testing for different biom file types. Furthermore, the user added functionality to convert `phyloseq` data to a `metagenomeSeq` MRexperiment object and updated the package by changing `deseq2` to `suggests`.
phyloseqrsequencing
jnpaulson/courses-HarvardX-IDS-Mod-2
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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