W Johnson
Associate Director Of Basic Science And Entrepreneurship
Greater St. George Area United States
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Top SchoolW Johnson is an interdisciplinary leader blending medicine, biostatistics, and data science with over a decade of academic and entrepreneurial experience. He currently serves as Associate Director of Basic Science and Entrepreneurship at Rutgers and is a Professor of Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Data Science, translating computational methods into infectious disease and clinical research. A Harvard-trained biostatistician with a long track record at institutions including Boston University and Brigham Young, he has co-founded multiple ventures (including Aperiomics and Red Rock Data Science) that commercialize high-throughput diagnostics and analytics. He builds and leads teams at the intersection of AI, biomedical informatics, and translational science, routinely moving methods from lab to clinic. Notably, his career reflects repeated dual roles—academic leadership and startup founding—demonstrating both rigorous scholarship and product-focused execution. Based in the Greater St. George area, he combines deep statistical expertise with hands-on entrepreneurship to bridge discovery and impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Statistics, Master of Science (MS) Statistics at Brigham Young UniversityBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Southern Utah UniversityAssociate of Arts (AA), Associate of Arts (AA) at Dixie State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Greek
Github Skills (17)
addon10
rshiny9
rna-seq9
sequencing8
preprocessing8
asynchronous7
batch7
r-package6
idris5
genomes5
signature5
data-science5
bioinformatics4
python3
profiling3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wevanjohnson/my.package
Nov 2019 - Jan 2025
This is my other add and subtract package
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
subtractaddon
wevanjohnson/ASSIGN
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
r-packageprofilingsignaturesadaptivebioinformatics
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