Brian D. Williamson Contact Information Health Sciences Building F-600 Department of Biostatistics University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 USA Phone: (206) 310-4888 Email: brianw26 at uw dot edu Web: www dot students dot washington dot edu slash brianw26 Research Interests Statistical methods for high-dimensional data, data visualization, statistical methods for cancer research Education University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA Ph.D., Biostatistics, 2014-2019 (expected) Pomona College, Claremont, California USA B.A., Mathematics, 2010-2014 Thesis Title: Shrinkage Estimators for High-Dimensional Covariance Matrices Advisor: Jo Hardin University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA Summer Institute in Biostatistics, August 2012 Certificates in Introduction to Clinical Trials and Sequential Modeling of Clinical Trials Honors and Awards University of Washington Department of Biostatistics Top Scholar Incoming Student Award, September 2014 Pomona College: Distinction in the Senior Exercise, May 2014 Sigma Xi, May 2014 Pomona-Pitzer Varsity Swimming and Diving Captain, 2013-2014 All SCIAC Conference Academic Team, 2013 and 2014 All SCIAC Conference Swimmer, 2013 UCLA DataFest: Winner, Best Insight, June 2013 Academic and Research Experience University of Washington, Seattle, Washington USA Teaching Assistant June, 2014 - present Developing a Stata-R dictionary for use by graduate department faculty to facilitate a switch from Stata to R in BIOST 511, 514/517, and 578 Developing an R package which implements some of Stata’s intuitive layout functionality and adds functionality to existing R functions Holding office hours for BIOST 511, BIOST 514/517, and BIOST 578 students Developing teaching tools including videos, lecture slides, and help files for biostatistics classes Pomona College, Claremont, California USA Mentor August 2013-May 2014 Held biweekly review sessions for students in Introduction to Statistics and Introduction to Biostatistics Grader August 2012-May 2013 Assist faculty by grading problem sets for Honors Calculus II and Introduction to Biostatistics Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California USA Integrative Cancer Biology Program Research Fellow Summer 2013 Developed an R function to automate cell gating in single cell cancer data Verified that automating gating improved accuracy of cell clusters when compared against literature Created an R function to develop a Nested Effects model on the data Created a visualization function to easily compare changes in stimulation pathways between the control and different doses of drug Professional Experience Global Market Insite, Inc. (GMI), Bellevue, Washington USA Intern Summer 2012 Analyzed the survival of a cohort of recruits to GMI’s panel of consumer market research survey respondents and built a function to model survivorship of survey respondents Built a life table to model the survivorship of survey respondents Built a model which predicts revenue gained from interventions at certain steps in a panelist’s life cycle SimInsights, Inc. Intern Winter Break 2011/2012 Developed quizzes and simulations for an online physics textbook using software provided by the company Created online video tutorials to go along with the simulations Pomona College Lead Pool Manager Fall 2012 - Spring 2014 Lead the crew that covers the varsity pool at nights and sets up the pool for swim meets. Technical Assistant Spring 2011-Fall 2012 Prepare and upload audio and video files to the college course webpage, SAKAI, for use by students and faculty Pool Manager Fall 2011-Spring 2011 Cover the varsity pool at night and set up the pool for swim meets. Computer Skills Statistical Packages: R, Stata Languages: Java, C++, SML, Python Applications: LATEX, common Windows spreadsheet and presentation software Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows
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