Kasper Hansen
Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolKasper Hansen is a professor of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins with two decades of experience developing statistical methods for genomics and computational biology. Trained at UC Berkeley (Ph.D. in Biostatistics/Computational Biology) and Copenhagen, he has advanced research in epigenetics, RNA-seq bias, and statistical genomics while moving from postdoc to full professor at JHU. He combines deep statistical computing expertise with practical experience in high-throughput sequencing analysis, cloud-enabled pipelines, and normalization methods. Known for bridging methodological rigor and applied genomic problems, he often tackles subtle measurement biases that impact biological inference. Based in Baltimore, he maintains an active academic research program focused on translating complex genomic data into robust, reproducible insights.
21 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Ph.D., Biostatistics, Computational Biology at University of California, BerkeleyMaster, Statistics, Master, Statistics at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Danish, English
Github Skills (61)
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bioconductor10
data-science9
github-projects9
genomics9
junction7
cran7
continuous-integration7
core-package6
sparse6
mass-spectrometry6
file-format6
peak-detection6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kasperdanielhansen/Rgraphviz
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
Devel repository for Rgraphviz
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 years 9 months
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hansenlab/minfi
Feb 2014 - Sep 2022
Devel repository for minfi
Contributions:310 commits, 62 PRs, 203 pushes in 8 years 8 months
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