Jason Willwerscheid
Assistant Professor In Mathematics & Computer Science
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolJason Willwerscheid is an interdisciplinary statistician and software-savvy academic who blends Bayesian statistics, statistical genetics, and machine learning with practical software skills in R, Python, and SQL. Currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Providence College, he brings postdoctoral experience from the University of Chicago’s Human Genetics group and a unique humanities background—a PhD in Literature focused on evolutionary theory and game studies. Over eight years of experience across academia and industry includes business intelligence work at Epic and teaching across statistics, data science, languages, and media studies, enabling him to translate complex quantitative methods for diverse audiences. He pursues research in sports analytics and media industries alongside genomic methods, and his profile reflects a rare combination of rigorous statistical training and narrative-driven critical inquiry.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics at The University of ChicagoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Literature, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Literature at University of California, Irvine
English, French, German
Github Skills (18)
r-package10
in-progress10
r10
factor-analysis10
normal10
algorithms4
matrix-factorization4
topic-models3
testing3
data-science2
multiple-regression2
quantile2
truncated2
normal-distribution2
statistics1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willwerscheid/ebmf-for-scrnaseq-paper
Apr 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:49 pushes in 3 years 8 months
stephenslab/ebnm
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
R package to fit Empirical Bayes Normal Means model.
Contributions:426 commits, 145 PRs, 126 pushes in 4 years 1 month
rr-package
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