Corrado Lanera

Research Fellow (RTD-A), data scientist, and trainer

University of Padova

Dep. Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health

Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health

Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences

Biography

I have been an R enthusiast and data scientist since 2014 and passionate about the Tidyverse since its beginning. Currently, I am a post-doc at the UBEP at the University of Padova. There, my research activity is driven in the area of machine learning and phenomapping techniques applied to clinical settings, with particular attention to free-text and unstructured data analyses and classification of:

patients based on free-text fields of electronic health records
papers and clinical registries’ entries tailored on researchers’ interest, supporting systematic review and meta-analysis processes
wearable devices’ kinetic signals, for caloric intake and rehabilitation rate/quality estimation

For our unit, I also manage the RStudio Pro and Shiny Open servers for the development and deployment of results, services, and apps we offer.

I love promoting, teaching, and being an example of how to create human-readable, reproducible, and robust R code, and I am recently became a RStudio Certified Trainer in the Tidyverse.

Interests

R programming
Data science
Teaching
Climbing

Education

Ph.D. in Specialistic medicine "G.B. Morgagni" - Biostatistics, 2020

University of Padova
II level master in Advanced Biostatistics for the Clinical Research, 2016

University of Padova
MSc in Mathematics, 2014

University of Udine

Recent & Upcoming Events

Talks, Workshops, & Lessons

Corrado Lanera

Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:30 PM — 22:00 PM Zoom-Meeting (link provided to participants)

(Meta)data texting in {ggplot2}

Thirty-minute hands-on to introduce the useful tools available in {ggplot2} to start exploring in practice how to use text in plots.

Book a free-seat

Shiny Apps

covid19ita

A platform for the monitoring of COVID-19 infection diffusion in Italy.

Clumpr

Current transpLant sUrplus Management Protocol in R.

Equationer

Calculator for energy requirements in elderly patients.

Grouper

Generator for students’ allocation between breakout rooms and exams’ turns.

Paper @UBEP

Scopus interface to UBEP’s published papers.

Experience

Research Grant: Development of a monitoring, forecasting and decision support system for the post-pandemic phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Veneto Region

University of Padova

Jul 2020 – Present Padova (IT)

Responsibilities include:

Contribute to the collection of historical data on phase 1, interfacing with the various actors that hold the necessary information (Veneto Region, Azienda Zero, Health Authorities)
Organize the databases so that they are interoperable with each other and verify their correctness with numerical and graphic statistical techniques;
Construct Phase 2 impact scenarios through micro-simulation techniques. Given the dynamic aspect of updating the databases used, an interface will be developed that allows the constant updating of the database and an automatic analysis of the updated data.

Research Grant: Review and development of Machine Learning techniques applied in risk assessment related to food safety

University of Padova

Oct 2019 – Jun 2020 Padova (IT)

Responsibilities include:

review of Machine Learning (ML) techniques
scripting, documenting and executing ML projects and case-studies
setup and managment of distributed computing
writing scientific papers to reporting results, and presenting them national and international congresses
teaching insights learned.

Exchange J1 Visitor Student: Research Science Technologies

University of Pennsylvania

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 Philadelphia (PA)

Health Language Processing Lab within the Institute of Biomedical Informatics

Teacher: Basic R programming for statisticians

Società di Scienze Farmacologiche Applicate

Jul 2018 – Jul 2018 Milano (IT)

Topics:

Basics of R and its packages system
Data structures
Data import, export and connections
Bases on programming in R
Base plot system
Regression Modelling Strategies and the rms package.

Teacher: Advance R programming for statisticians

Società di Scienze Farmacologiche Applicate

Nov 2017 – Nov 2017 Milano (IT)

Topics:

data manipulation
Grammar of Graphics with ggplot2.

Teacher: Basic R programming for statisticians

Società di Scienze Farmacologiche Applicate

Apr 2017 – Apr 2017 Milano (IT)

Topics:

Basics of R and its packages system
Data structures
Data import, export and connections
Bases on programming in R
Base plot system.

Consultants

Zetaresearch s.r.l.

Jan 2016 – Present Trieste (IT)

Responsibilities include:

Data cleaning
Statistical Analyses.

Research Grant: Review and development of Machine Learning techniques applied in risk assessment related to food safety

University of Padova

Feb 2015 – Sep 2016 Padova (IT)

Responsibilities include:

setup LaTeX template for the reports
review of Machine Learning (ML) techniques
scripting, documenting and executing ML projects and case-studies
managment of distributed computing
reporting and presenting the results obtained
teaching insights learned.

Fellowship: Evaluation of the risk of suffocation incident in Brazil

ProChild Protecting Children Onlus

Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Padova (IT)

Responsibilities include:

LaTeX report design, development and mantaining
Data cleaning.

Accomplishments

RStudio Certified Trainer in the Tidyverse

RStudio Jul 2020 – Sep 2020

See certificate

Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera/deeplearning.ai Jul 2019 – Apr 2020

Courses Included:

Neural Network and Deep Learning (certificate)
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization (certificate)
Structuring Machine Learning Projects (certificate)
Convolutional Neural Networks (certificate)
Sequence Models (in progress) (certificate)

See certificate

Mastering Software Development in R Specialization

Coursera/Johns Hopkins University Apr 2019 – Apr 2019

Courses Included:

The R Programming Environment (certificate)
Advanced R Programming (certificate)
Building R Packages (certificate)
Building Data Visualization Tools (certificate)
Mastering Software Development in R Capstone (certificate)

See certificate

Machine Learning

Coursera/Stanford University Jun 2018

See certificate

Extending the Tidyverse (by Hadley Wickham)

RStudio Jan 2018 – Feb 2018

Topics investigated include:

package development and documentation
test-driven development and continuous integration
object-oriented and functional programming
tidy-evaluation
sharing project (CRAN and GitHub)

Data Visualization with ggplot2

DataCamp Nov 2017

Parts:

part 1: introduction, data, aesthetics, geometries, qplot and wrap-up (certificate)
part 2: statistics, coordinates and facets, themes, best practices, case study (certificate),