Teaching

Courses

Current courses:

• BIOS 784 / BCB 784 - Introduction to Computational Biology
  • Fall 2026, Tue/Thur 12:30-1:45, Aug 17 – Dec 11
• BCB 724 - Data Communication
  • Fall 2026, Tue/Thur 2:00-3:15, Nov 3 – Dec 3

I am part of the leadership of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) PhD program within the Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) in the School of Medicine of UNC-Chapel Hill. Note that there is not direct application or admittance into labs/programs: “Students are admitted into the BBSP for the first year of graduate study. During this year you are free to explore departments, programs, labs and courses before committing to a specific thesis lab or PhD program.”

Links about BCB and BBSP:

• UNC BCB
• UNC BBSP
• How to apply to BBSP and BCB application notes

I am also a faculty in the Biostatistics Department at the Gillings School of Public Health:

• UNC Biostatistics
• How to apply to Biostatistics

Previous courses:

• BIOS 735 - Introduction to Statistical Computing, Last taught: Spring 2019 (co-taught with Dr. Naim Rashid)

Online books and tutorials

• Statistical Modeling of High Dimensional Counts (online mini-book)
  • Published as a chapter: Methods Mol Biol. 2021:2284:97-134
• Data Analysis for the Life Sciences by Rafael A. Irizarry and Michael I. Love
  • PDF from Leanpub
  • Paperback or eBook from CRC Press
  • Available on Amazon
• Tidy ranges tutorial (online mini-book)
  • part of Tidyomics Project