Robyn L. Ball, Ph.D.
About RobynDr. Robyn Ball is an experienced data scientist and statistician. She owns her own consulting business and is a Computational Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.
At The Jackson Laboratory, she develops novel statistical methods and robust genomic resources to facilitate scientific discoveries in genetics and genomics, with a specific focus on identifying patterns in multi-modal data and cross-species analysis. While a doctoral student in Statistics at Texas A&M University, Dr. Ball was awarded a NASA Fellowship where she developed a statistical model to predict ‘heart age’ using the electrocardiogram, for which she received NASA Inventions and Contributions Tech Brief Award for her outstanding contribution to science. During this same time, she completed two internships at MD Anderson Cancer Center where she applied machine learning techniques to cancer genomics. Prior to re-joining The Jackson Laboratory in 2019, Dr. Ball was a Senior Statistician at Stanford University where she served as the statistical lead in medical research initiatives and mentored students and junior faculty in clinical research. In her free time, Dr. Ball mentored computer science students in Stanford’s AI for Healthcare Bootcamp and worked with the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) to produce the 2019 and 2020 RSNA Kaggle competitions. Dr. Ball also serves on the Executive Committee of the American Statistical Association Statistical Consulting Section. The areas of her statistical expertise include developing robust statistical methods to analyze high dimensional biomedical data, nonparametric statistics, statistical genetics, genomics and proteomics, machine learning methods, and pattern recognition. |
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When not trying to save the world with mathematics & statistics, Robyn spends most of her time hiking and camping. She is an avid adventurer and amateur photographer.
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