jamesmbaazam/jamesmbaazam

Personal profile

Hi there, I am a Research Software Engineer 💻 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working on the Epiverse TRACE Initiative, which is a project to develop and maintain R packages for providing reproducible analytics support during epidemics.

What I do

📦: Develop and maintain epichains as a successor of bpmodels (an R package for analysing the distribution of the size and length of transmission chains)

📦: Contribute to the following R packages:

• Several packages in the Epiverse-TRACE Initiative,
• EpiNow2,
• epinowcast,
• scoringutils.

🕵️‍♂️: Code reviews. See examples in:

• the epidemics R package
• the cfr R package
• the superspreading R package
• the epiparameter R package

🕵️‍♂️: Peer review scientific manuscripts in Infectious disease modeling, Global Public Health, and R package development.

• I've so far reviewed articles in Scientific Reports, Plos Global Public Health, and The Journal of Open Source Software.

Technical concepts I'm currently learning

• Probabilistic Programming with the Stan programming language
• Bayesian Data Analysis
• Model fitting
• Nowcasting and Forecasting

Books I'm currently reading

• A Game of Thrones
• The Art of Explanation
• How to talk to anyone
• Standard Deviation

See more on my website.