Mario Becerra
Principal Statistician
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolMario Becerra is a Principal Statistician and applied mathematician with 11 years of experience building Bayesian models, experimental designs and data-driven visualizations across industry and academia. Currently on GSK’s Vaccines Research & Translational Statistics team in Leuven, he combines rigorous PhD-level research in optimal choice-experiment design with hands-on software skills—R packages and C++ backends—to deliver efficient, production-ready analytics. His work spans predictive modeling, causal and spatial analyses, and accelerating slow R code, informed by consulting and bank analytics roles where he translated complex results for non-technical stakeholders. An active researcher, he published and presented Bayesian D- and I-optimal design methods (with an open-source opdesmixr package) and has supervised multiple student projects. Outside work he balances long-distance cycling, guitar and multilingual curiosity, a mix that reflects both technical discipline and a collaborative, exploratory mindset.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at KU LeuvenMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
English, Spanish, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
venn-diagram10
lex10
upsetr10
r-package9
cffi8
visualization8
interoperability7
r7
naming7
random-forest6
parallel-processing6
dplyr6
ggplot6
max6
minimum6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mariobecerra/Active_Learning_CNNs
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:151 commits, 110 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
mariobecerra/opdesmixr
Feb 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:146 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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