Benilton Carvalho
Associate Professor
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBenilton Carvalho is an Associate Professor and former Chair of Statistics at UNICAMP with 20 years’ experience developing statistical methods for high-throughput biological data and mentoring the next generation of biostatisticians. He combines deep academic research (PhD in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins) with practical bioinformatics software engineering, as a leading Bioconductor contributor and author of widely used packages such as oligo and crlmm. His work spans microarrays and next-generation sequencing, experimental design for large-scale studies, and production-ready data products implemented in R, Python, SQL and SAS. Beyond publications, he has shaped institutional research strategy as an advisor to UNICAMP’s vice-president of research and led bioinformatics labs that translate methods into community tools. A practical statistician at heart, he is known for bridging rigorous methodology with open-source software that directly enables reproducible biomedical analyses.
21 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityM.Sc., Statistics, M.Sc., Statistics at UNICAMP
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
111reputation
5kreached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (40)
next-generation-sequencing10
reproducible-research9
nextflow9
rio9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
e-mail9
genomics9
nf-core8
pipeline8
conda8
preprocessing8
knitr6
github-projects6
r6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
labbcb/labbcb.github.io
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
benilton/pdInfoBuilder
Dec 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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.