Leonardo Torres
Investigator
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLeonardo Torres is an investigator and data scientist with 13 years of experience applying R/Bioconductor and reproducible workflows to complex neurogenomics problems at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development. He leads the Team Data Science group, steers open-source R package development (including spatialLIBD, recount and several lab tools), and mentors others through the LIBD rstats club and formal teaching roles. His work bridges hands-on bioinformatics pipelines, grant-driven research, and collaborative projects with JHU and international partners, producing methodology and spatial transcriptomics outputs used across the field. A PhD-trained biostatistician with roots in genomic sciences, he also co-founded CDSB Mexico and has a track record of turning large-scale sequencing efforts into reusable software and reproducible analyses.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)PhD, Biostatistics, PhD, Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthHigh School, High School at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Spanish, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
spatial-transcriptomics10
knitr10
transcriptomics10
forestry10
sports-data10
blogdown10
data-sharing10
junction10
psychology10
cms10
hugo-theme10
seq10
golem10
static-html10
r10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
LieberInstitute/recountWorkflow
Aug 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 60 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 3 months
public-repovisiblebioconductorworkflowsworkflow
leekgroup/regionReportSupp
Feb 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 24 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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