Prof. Ingo Ruczinski is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and member of the Center for Computational Biology and the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine. His professional expertise is in statistical genetics, genomics and proteomics. Prof. Ruczinski has developed or co-developed several methodologies and open source software packages relevant for genomic array pre-processing, SNP association studies, family-based sequencing studies, studies of DNA copy number variants, and proteomic analyses. In addition to methods and software development, he collaborates on several large-scale genomic association and sequencing studies at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health and Medicine, and as part of larger collaborations including the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program. His professional memberships include the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, American Society of Human Genetics, the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, and the International Biometric Society. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Dortmund, Germany, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and the Centre National de Genotypage in Paris-Evry, France.