{"id":5,"date":"2012-01-02T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T08:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/john.ranola.org\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2019-01-21T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T08:17:12","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/john.ranola.org\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am currently a Research Scientist\/Statistician working in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington under Dr. Brian Shirts.\u00a0 Previously I did a postdoc in the Department of Statistics at UW<\/a> under the tutelage of Professor Elizabeth Thompson<\/a>\u00a0the former President-Elect of the International Biometric Society<\/a> and prior to that I was a graduate student in the\u00a0Department of Biomathematics at UCLA<\/a>\u00a0under Professor\u00a0Kenneth Lange<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My research focuses on analyzing biological data though much of my recent work focuses on genetics.\u00a0 Some of my current work involves classifying variants of uncertain significance in clinical pedigrees and I had a major role in the AnalyzeMyVariant<\/a> website.\u00a0 Previously, I have worked with genetic data focusing on spatial structure. \u00a0Specifically, I a studied using an organism’s genetic information to place them onto the geographic map. \u00a0For more information see my paper in Bioinformatics \u00a0on “Fast Spatial Ancestry via Flexible Allele Frequency Surfaces<\/a>” and the associated R-package OriGen on R-forge<\/a>. \u00a0Additionally I have done work on high dimensional spatial and network datasets using elements from graph theory (mainly random, weighted, or directed graphs), probability\u00a0modeling, the Minorization-Maximization (MM) algorithm, and an extension of graph theory that I helped to develop called random multigraph theory. \u00a0For information on random multigraphs see my papers “A Poisson Model for Random Multigraphs<\/a>” and also “Cluster and propensity based approximation of a network<\/a>” with the associated R-package PropClust on cran<\/a>. \u00a0Although my research has focused mainly on the analysis of genetic networks, including the\u00a0Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man<\/a>,\u00a0BioGRID<\/a>, and\u00a0Human Protein Reference Databases<\/a>, it is applicable to many areas. \u00a0Among others, I have analyzed datasets in literature, business, social networks, disease relationships, and money flow.<\/p>\n

I am also interested in optimization, algorithms, parallel computing using GPU’s, and computational and statistical genetics.<\/p>\n

I am looking for a job in Statistical Genetics, Computational Genetics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, or Computational Biology around Portland, OR or Seattle, WA. \u00a0If you have a job opening or would like more information on my research\u00a0please feel free to\u00a0contact me<\/a>\u00a0or see my Curriculum Vitae<\/a>. \u00a0Thank you!<\/p>\n

Some interesting facts about me:<\/p>\n