Shawn Garbett
Assistant In Biostatistics
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Garbett is an applied biostatistician and former software engineer with 20 years of experience translating complex numerical methods into high-confidence systems for healthcare and beyond. Currently an Assistant in Biostatistics at Vanderbilt, he focuses on clinical trial methods, observational research using large medical records, opioid use disorder treatment in pregnancy, and cost-effectiveness of polygenic risk scores. He brings rare cross-domain experience—from power grid optimization and nuclear medicine to embedded medical devices and investment banking—combined with a track record of leading teams from chaotic delivery to repeatable, morale-boosting practices. Skilled in predictive modeling, Markov and hyperbolic methods, and net monetary benefit estimation, he pairs rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic engineering instincts. Based in Nashville, Shawn’s work blends academic rigor with production-grade software discipline, often surfacing non-obvious trade-offs between model fidelity and operational reliability.
20 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
CSEE, CSEE at TulaneMaster's degree, Master's degree at Penn State
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
table-of-contents10
converting10
knitr10
commonmark10
libyaml10
haskell10
markdown10
redcap10
markup-language10
yaml10
systems-biology10
markup10
r-package10
pandoc10
converter10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spgarbet/tangram
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Table Grammar package for R
Contributions:345 commits, 1 PR, 598 pushes in 6 years 6 months
grammarrstatsknitrtypesetting
spgarbet/conan
Jun 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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