Richard Klein
Clinical Data Scientist-Office Of New Drugs
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Klein is a Clinical Data Scientist at the FDA with a PhD in Social Psychology and over 11 years of experience applying rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to clinical and behavioral data. He designs safety data review plans and performs in-depth safety analyses for NDAs/BLAs, translating complex signals into actionable recommendations for decision makers. Prior roles include leading a 22-person team in methodological audits, reanalyzing hundreds of papers with multi-verse approaches, and assessing privacy risks across thousands of datasets—work that helped secure funding for reproducibility and privacy tooling. He combines experimental design, data pipeline development, and process improvement to answer nuanced questions about human behavior and trial safety. Interested in open science and replicability, he brings atypical breadth for a regulator: deep academic research experience paired with production-focused data quality and site operations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology and Finance, Bachelor's degree Psychology and Finance at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Psychology at University of Florida
English, French
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Github Skills (17)
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science5
python5
data-science5
open-science5
javascript5
creative-commons4
ml3
r-package2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
raklein/hello-world
May 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
rickreactlearning-github
co-relab/co-relab_source
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Source for the corelab.io website
Contributions:72 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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