Perry Haaland
Adjunct Professor at Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPerry Haaland is an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at UNC Chapel Hill with over a decade of experience mentoring graduate and undergraduate students in team-based data science and statistical consulting. He brings a long industry career at BD leading bioinformatics and NGS pipelines, where he bridged statistics, software engineering, and experimental design for high-throughput biology. Perry focuses on instilling systematic best practices—version control, reproducible notebooks, and exploratory data workflows—to prevent common analytical pitfalls and accelerate team delivery. His work emphasizes translating classroom methods to open-ended, real-world analyses and training students to produce auditable, collaborative code. With a PhD in Mathematical Statistics and hands-on experience in single-cell and sequencing applications, he blends deep theory with practical tooling like R, Python, R Markdown, and GitHub. He is known for turning complex biological data problems into teachable frameworks that prepare students for professional data science roles.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mathematical Statistics, Ph.D., Mathematical Statistics at Tulane UniversityB.A., Mathematics, French, B.A., Mathematics, French at Northern State University
Github Skills (5)
genes2
depth2
rna-seq1
genomics1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phaaland/retirement
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 years 1 month
phaaland/LungCancerData
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Early TCGA Data with RNAseq read depth curves for 4 genes
Contributions:12 pushes in 26 days
rnaseqtcgadepthgenomicsbioinformatics
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