Resume

Education

• PhD in Computer Science:

        “Análisis e integración de información de datos biológicos mediante análisis funcional”

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2014 - 2019)

• MSc in Applied Statistics

        FCA, FCE and FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2014 - )

• MSc in Computer Science

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2007 - 2012)

• BSc in Computer Science

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2007 - 2009)

Industry Experience

• Head of Data / Data Science

        Good Tree (October 2020 - Present)

• Lead Data Scientist

        Winclap (February 2020 - November 2020)

• Software Engineer

        Applied Research (INVAP; June 2013 - October 2013)

• QA Engineer

        HPC Group at Intel Corporation (June 2012 - June 2013)

Teaching Activities

• Teaching Assistant

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (May 2014 - March 2021)

        Algorithms and Data Structures

• Teaching Associate

        Faculty of Engineering - Catholic University of Córdoba (2013 - 2014)

        Programming in Python

• Student Assistant

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2011 - 2012)

        Algorithms and Data Structures II & Databases

R Packages

CRAN

• rco: The R Code Optimizer.

• autokeras: R Interface to ‘AutoKeras’.

• rflights: Query Plane Tickets using the ‘Kiwi’ API.

Bioconductor

• MIGSA: Massive and Integrative Gene Set Analysis.

GitHub

• shinyParallel: Run Shiny Applications in a Multi-Session Mode.

• shinyWYSIWYG: Shiny What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor.

• interactingan: Interactive Presentation Ninja.

• heyshiny: New shiny input that translates audio to text.

Awards and Distinctions

• University Award

        Diploma with Special Mention

        National University of Córdoba to the second best average of 2011 graduates

• Substitute for First Escort

        FAMAF - National University of Córdoba (2011)

Mentoring

• 2020 Google Summer of Code mentor w/R-project

        Mentoring of student Rahul Saxena to work on the rco R package.

• 2019 Google Code-in mentor w/R-project

        Mentored pre-university students with short tasks related to the rco R package.

Scholarships

• 2019 Google Summer of Code student w/R-project

        Was awarded a GSoC project to develop the R Code Optimizer, rco, R package.

• Fulbright exchange visiting scholarship

        At the University of Florida (2018)

• Doctoral Scholarship

        National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina (CONICET; 2013 - 2019)

• Master’s Scholarship

        Government of Córdoba, Argentina (2007 - 2011)

Publications

2021

• Rodriguez, J. C.

        The {botmaker}: automatically build R-based bots, the result of creating the @RStatsJobsBot Twitter bot.

        📽 Video

2019

• Rodriguez, J. C., Luraschi J.

        Auto-Keras: An R easily accessible deep learning library.

• Rodriguez, J. C., Merino, G. A., Llera A. S., Fernández, E. A.

        Massive integrative gene set analysis enables functional characterization of

        breast cancer subtypes. (Journal)

2018

• Rodriguez, J. C., Vargas Rojas C., Fernández, E. A.

        ShinyWYSIWYG: a Shiny What You See Is What You Get editor.

2017

• Rodriguez, J. C., Prato L., Llera A. S., Fernández, E. A.

        Effects of RNA-Seq data gene analysis methods, on the over-representation analysis of gene

        sets.

2016

• Rodriguez, J. C., González, G. A., Fresno, C., Llera, A. S., Fernández, E. A.

        Improving Information Retrieval in Functional Analysis. (Journal)

• Rodriguez, J. C., Merino, G. A., Prato L., Llera A. S., Fernández, E. A.

        The impact of RNA-Seq differential expression algorithms on Over-Representation Analysis

        of Gene Sets.

2015

• Rodriguez, J. C., González, G., Fresno, C., & Fernández, E. A.

        Integrative Functional Analysis Improves Information Retrieval in Breast Cancer.

• Fresno C., González G. A., Merino G. A., Rodriguez J. C., Balzarini M., Fernández E. A.

        DNA Microarrays Quality Control by ANOVA-PCA / PLS decomposition.

Research Exchange

• At the Ana Conesa Lab.

        University of Florida, USA (October 2018 - December 2018)

• At the Genomics of Gene Expression group.

        Centro de Investigación Prícipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain (October 2017 - December 2017)

        DEANN project (Marie Curie IRSES, European Commission, 2013)