Pedro Baldoni
Senior Research Officer at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Australia
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Top SchoolPedro Baldoni is a Senior Research Officer in bioinformatics and computational biology with eight years of experience developing statistical methods and open-source tools to analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic high-throughput data. He holds a PhD in Biostatistics from UNC Chapel Hill and has combined academic leadership as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh with deep research at WEHI and UNC, bringing both theoretical rigor and practical software engineering to biological problems. Pedro excels at turning complex experimental designs into efficient, reproducible analysis pipelines that help researchers extract actionable insights. Based in Pittsburgh with ties to Australia, he balances method development with hands-on tool building, often optimizing performance for real-world datasets rather than purely theoretical benchmarks.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMaster's degree, Statistics, Master's degree, Statistics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Italian, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (55)
r-package9
hidden9
unconf9
markov9
sum8
meta-analysis8
shotgun7
mass-spectrometry7
r-programming6
knitr6
gene-expression6
anova6
r6
motif5
bioinformatics5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
plbaldoni/epigraHMM
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Epigenomic R-Based Analysis With Hidden Markov Models
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 41 PRs in 14 days
r-packagehypothesis-testingr-programmingmeta-analysishidden-markov-models
plbaldoni/plbaldoni
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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