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Oct 20, 2025 Started a new job at Merck. I am now working as a Senior Scientist in Late Development Statistics within the Biostatistics and Research Division Sciences Division. This job opportunity motivated my relocation to the east coast.
Oct 7, 2025 Paper accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics; article to appear in 2026 under the title, “plmmr: an R package to fit penalized linear mixed models for genome-wide association data with complex correlation structure.”
Aug 4, 2025 Gave a 15-minute talk at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, TN, titled “Penalized linear mixed models for correlated genetic data.”
Jun 10, 2025 En colaboración con la Fundación Clínica Noel, presenté un póster en el Congreso Internacional de la Genética Humana en Cartagena, Colombia.
May 21, 2025 Gave a talk on my recent software package at the 2025 StatGen conference in Minneapolis, MN.
May 16, 2025 In April 2025, I returned to the US after spending 7 months doing research in Medellín, Colombia. My work in Colombia was made possible by a grant from the Fulbright Study/Research program and the Colombian institution ICETEX. In May 2025, I graduated with my PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa.