Stephanie Hicks
Associate Professor
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolStephanie Hicks is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University with 12 years of experience developing scalable computational methods and open-source software for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. She bridges rigorous statistical methodology and practical genomics applications, translating complex high-dimensional data into biological insights that advance understanding of human health and disease. Her work spans academia and community-building—she co-founded R-Ladies Baltimore and serves on high-profile advisory and editorial boards including Bioconductor and Genome Biology—demonstrating leadership in both technical ecosystems and diversity initiatives. A PhD-trained statistician from Rice, she has a track record of prestigious awards (K99/R00, COPSS Emerging Leader) and a knack for turning cutting-edge methods into widely used tools that power reproducible biomedical research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at Rice UniversityB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Louisiana State University
French
Github Skills (112)
python10
seq10
bmi10
transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
quantile10
genomics10
clustering10
dimensionality-reduction10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
data-visualization10
t-test10
tsne10
estimate10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rladies/meetup-presentations_baltimore
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes in 3 years 3 months
datasciencelabs/datasciencelabs.github.io-2017
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
bstgithub-website
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.