Rick Farouni
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About Me
I am an applied statistician and data scientist with expertise in Bayesian statistics, generalized linear mixed models, machine and deep learning, and the bioinformatics analysis of genomics data. Currently, I am bioinformatics scientist at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher in computational biology working with Dr. Najafabadi in the Department of Human Genetics, McGill University/Génome Québec Innovation Centre and before moving to Canada, I was a research fellow in the lab of Dr. Pinello at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. I received a PhD in Quantitative Psychology (statistics applied to modeling psychological and neuroimaging data), a masters degree in Mathematical Statistics, and a masters degree in Psychometrics from the Ohio State University. This website contains blogposts, code, and links to several resources that I hope you might find useful.My CV can be accessed here.
A list of my publications can be found here.
An example of my teaching philosophy and approach can be accessed here.
Blog Posts
circRNA
BMI Poster
Written Candidacy Examination
fMRI Data Simulation
Particle Filter
Presentation
JSM Poster
Bioconductor Main Classes Overview
Model Identification
Bayesian Factor Analysis
Model Identification
Bayesian MIRT
Bayesian IRT