Gordon Brown

Background

About Gordon Brown

I am recent graduate holding a degree in Data Analytics for Precision Medicine from University College Dublin. My program emphasized modern statistical methods for analyzing datasets related to health care and bioinformatics. I have also completed modules in infectious diseases, metagenomics, machine learning, deep learning, and multivariate analysis. I completed my undergraduate studies at Simon Fraser University in Biology and Indigenous Studies. DATA MINING - Mined publicly available data on cervical cancer risk factors to build calculator for disease risk and to recommend interventions and corrected for imbalanced data using synthetic oversampling - Good understanding of exploratory data analysis to recommend best practices for further analysis - Used R and Python libraries to demonstrate conclusions with easy-to-understand graphs and illustrations MACHINE LEARNING - Built deep learning models to analyse computerized tomography (CT) scan images of lung cancer in an effort to predict cancer type - Used supervised learning libraries to predict health outcomes of heart disease patients based on demographic data and risk factors - Strong knowledge of statistical foundations of various machine learning models ETHICS AND KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION - Excellent understanding of issues related to data privacy, good clinical practice, and ethical obligations to patients in the context of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)- Background knowledge in Indigenous issues in Canada with a focus on Indigenous rights and title, self-government, and legal issues - Understanding of responsibility of researchers regarding knowledge dissemination to Indigenous communities, including OCAP principles RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS - Trained to relate data to everyday life by producing meaningful analysis based on available research to support conclusions of statistical analyses - Good understanding of data analytics techniques used in public health, epidemiology, and virology - Determined potential impacts of Hepatitis E Virus prevalence in Irish pork products by conducting literature analysis