I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.
I’m originally from Managua, Nicaragua by way of Bonanza, Nicaragua, a beautiful gold mining town in Nicaragua located in the North Eastern region of the country.
The painting on the website is from my favorite artist who is also from Bonanza, Nicaragua. His name is Augusto Silva Gomez. I strongly recommend anyone to him. He is extremely talented. I call the piece of art Transformers. It captures diversity of humans, the many elements of our genetic makeup, and energy emanating from volcanoes. I love the colors that he uses and his artistic style. In addition, it captures the Americas where I was raised. This is the picture of him with the painting in the background that drew my attention to his art: originally used to design the Legacy Flor de Caña bottle.
I trained in Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A wonderful place with wonderful faculty.
There, I had the privilege to learn from many brilliant minds. One in particular stood out for me and that was Prof. Richard M. Dudley. There, I learned about rigorous statistical and mathematical thinking. Nonetheless, it was the perfect place to be humbled. The first few weeks at MIT everyone shows up confident. However, you quickly realize how very little you know once the exams start coming online. They know that and that is the reason the first semester is Pass/Fail. I think the average scores of many exams the first week was around 10-12 out of 100.
BTW, if you want to learn more about the importance of Prof. Dudley’s work watch the Abel Prize presentation awarded to Prof. Michel Talagrand:
I spent a great deal of time at the Broad Institute. At the Broad I learned about human genetics, data exploration, and coding. I’ll have more to say about that later.
For my PhD I went to Oxford University. You can see a bit about my time there here at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine website.
I am currently a faculty member at Stanford University. A phenomenal campus with fantastic colleagues and with an entrepreneurial spirit unlike any other university.
PS. I strongly recommend watching the Abel Prize announcement.
