Karissa Whiting
Research Biostatistician
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKarissa Whiting is a Research Biostatistician based in New York with 11 years of experience translating complex biomedical data into robust, presentation-ready analyses. Currently at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, she combines rigorous biostatistical methods with reproducible data reporting to support clinical and translational research. She holds an MS in Biostatistics from Columbia Mailman and a multidisciplinary BA from NYU, bringing both quantitative rigor and human-centered perspective to study design. An active contributor to open-source R tooling, she enhanced the widely used gtsummary package with features that improve survival-table inline reporting and automated documentation. Colleagues value her for bridging technical implementation and clear communication of results to clinical teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics at Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthBachelor of Arts (BA), Medical Anthropology, Psychology, and Business Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Medical Anthropology, Psychology, and Business Studies at New York University
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ddsjoberg/gtsummary
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 27 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Karissa primarily contributed to the `gtsummary` R package by implementing and testing new features related to table formatting and reporting. They added an `inline_text` function for `tbl_survival` objects, enhancing the package's capability to generate presentation-ready tables. Their work included writing tests to ensure the functionality and robustness of the added features. Furthermore, the user automated the documentation generation process.
r-packagestatisticspresentationregression-modelsanalytic
karissawhiting/cbioportalR
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
R package to wrap cBioPortal's API to pull data from public or private cBioPortal databases
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 259 commits in 1 year 9 months
r-packageapicbioportalapi-swrap
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