Ryan Peterson
Associate Professor
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Peterson is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Iowa who blends methodological research with practical collaboration to improve statistical practice in biomedical research. With eight years of academic experience spanning roles at Colorado and Iowa, he focuses on model selection, interpretability for human-centered statistical learning and AI, missing data methods, and post-selection inference. He designs curricula to train the next generation of statistical practitioners and writes about best practices for effective cross-disciplinary collaboration. His applied work includes large healthcare database analyses, time-series modeling for infectious diseases, and tools for planning complex clinical trials. Outside academia he’s an engaged teacher and communicator who balances rigorous methods with human-centered transparency—and he’s known to relax by hiking the mountains or playing disc golf with his hilarious kids.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at St. Olaf CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biostatistics at University of Iowa
Greek, French
Github Skills (31)
prepare10
normalization10
ordered10
estimate10
quantile10
normalizing10
adaptation10
preprocessing9
r-package9
modeling8
python8
machine-learning8
feature-engineering8
polynomials8
journal7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
petersonR/sparseR
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Selection of interactions and polynomials under ranked sparsity principles
Contributions:4 releases, 81 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
principlesrankedsparsityselectionpolynomials
petersonR/MSDshiny
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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