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Lluís Revilla Sancho

Data scientist

Roche

Biography

I am a data scientist working at Roche.

Besides my work, I use my skills to make data transparency accessible. I mainly use R to gather data and answer questions to provide insights and make informed decisions. I collaborate with several organizations R Foundation, R Consortium and Bioconductor, where I maintain some packages, CRAN, rOpenSci, rOpenSpain.

Previously, worked at the T-cell immunogenicity virus (TIV) group led by Christian Brander at IrsiCaixa and at the IBD group at IDIBAPS My academic research interests include data integration (my Ph.D. topic) and functional enrichment.

Outside programming I enjoy hiking, jumping rope, and diabolo as hobbies.

Interests

  • Software quality
  • Improving process
  • Data integration

Education

  • PhD in Biomedicnie (Bioinformatics), 2022

    Universitat de Barcelona

  • MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Science, 2017

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  • BSc in Biotechnology, 2015

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data scientist

Roche

October 2024 – Present Madrid

Part of the Data&Analysis team I work in different projects:

  • Teal framework
  • R validation repository working group
 
 
 
 
 

PostDoc Bioinformatician

IrsiCaixa

December 2022 – October 2024 Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq

  • Building reports and provide statistical support

  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments

 
 
 
 
 

Bioinformatician/PostDoc

IDIBAPS

July 2022 – November 2022 Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq and microbiome data (16S)
  • Modelling relation between microbiome and mucosal intestine
  • Building reports
  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments
  • Managing the group server
 
 
 
 
 

PhD student

CIBEREHD

April 2018 – June 2022 Barcelona

Responsibilities include:

  • Analysing RNA-seq and microbiome data (16S)
  • Modelling relation between microbiome and mucosal intestine
  • Building reports
  • Assessing design of sequencing experiments
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

Mind the byte

April 2015 – July 2015 Barcelona
Implement a way to download and update data from public databases.
 
 
 
 
 

Intern

FH Campus Wien

September 2013 – June 2014 Vienna
As a visiting Erasmus student I did an internship where I learned about differential gene expression analysis. Implemented topGO into the analysis pipeline. Analyzed Pichia pastoris

Recent Posts

Mainly entries about R and with code. Other content might be on my blog at b101nfo

Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day

Recently I was pointed to Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day and given my situation and recent behavior I decided to re-evaluate my participation in at least one project: Bioconductor: Responsibilities: CAB member: Enabling productive and respectful participation, empowering developers at all levels of experience.
Last updated on Jun 11, 2025 1 min read FOSS

A Code of Conduct committee

My journey through two years of volunteering for Bioconductor as part of the Code of Conduct.
Last updated on Feb 10, 2025 4 min read Bioconductor

Exploring CRAN's files: part 3

Exploring references and help pages of base R packages and CRAN packages.
Last updated on Jan 1, 2025 19 min read CRAN, r

The missing R generation

Sunday I was a bit down before going to Salzburg, as I was considering if spending my monthly salary in a week for useR!2 024 was worth it. While I was looking to some talks and content I was mainly interested in meeting people.
Last updated on Jul 29, 2024 8 min read FOSS, r

Packaging R: getting in repositories

After the previous post collecting information about repositories I want to collect here my thoughts on adding a package in a repository and how repositories are recognized. As in the previous post this is built on the assumption that one already has a package or more and wants to distribute it.
Last updated on May 5, 2024 3 min read Bioconductor, CRAN, OSS
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Last talks

My talks

useR madrid: rtweet

I provide some experiences around developing and maintaining a package
Feb 29, 2024 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM online
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Los paquetes van a CRAN

A short presentation in Spanish about submitting a package to CRAN and maintain it.
Nov 25, 2022 12:00 AM — 12:20 PM Córdoba
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Releasing packages

Package development, release and maintenance process based on several other posts and presentations on this blog.
Jan 16, 2022 12:00 AM — Jan 29, 2022 12:00 AM online
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Improving (analysis) process: developing packages

I was invited to give this talk shortly after my talk at useR!2021. I was very nervous because I would like to have such a community on Spain and work together with them.
Nov 11, 2021 12:00 AM — Nov 9, 2021 12:06 AM
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Workshop: Creating packages

I was invited by Francis Mensha on R-devel slack to give this workshop on April 29th for the R User Group Ghana. First time teaching R stats and remote I expected people to follow the workshop and run the code and then ask questions but I was asked to do it myself.
Oct 20, 2021 12:00 AM
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