Jesse Canchola is a native Californian, his parents having emigrated from Mexico in the 1950's and 1960's and has been a statistician for over 25 years. Jesse is a statistician by training from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UCLA.
Jesse started out his career as a bio/statistician at Alpha Therapeutics Corporation, located in Los Angeles before moving up to the Bay Area in 1992.
He worked as a statistician for 14 years in the Dept. of Medicine at UCSF before moving to the molecular diagnostics industry at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in Berkeley for about 6 years where he worked on the VERSANT HCV and HIV-1 quant assays.
He then moved on to Tethys Bioscience, a small startup in Emeryville, California for two years working on the PreDx test - a preventive test that used 7 assay results in one algorithm for assessing your five year risk for conversion to Type II Diabetes mellitus.
After the company went under, Jesse landed at Roche Molecular Systems in Pleasanton, California, first as a contractor BioStatistician then hired as a full-time Principal BioStatistician with his latest incarnation as a Manager, Biostatistics.
Jesse was also adjunct faculty in the Department of Statistics at the California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California for 12 years from 1997 to 2008, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics as well as being the SAS instructor for the Department.
Over the years, he has presented, and continues to present, at statistics and SAS conferences and written substantially in peer reviewed journals and in proceedings of statistics (including The Joint Statistical Meetings) and SAS conferences (including The SAS Global Forum/SUGI, PharmaSUG and WUSS; over 40 publications with over 2600 citations).
In his spare time you will find Jesse volunteering for the Alameda County Community Food Bank, as an unpaid Board member (current and past President and Vice-President) for the Latin America Community Assistance Foundation (MyLACA.Org) which serves and empowers the rural poor of Latin America, and the All Saints Parish of Hayward in various past roles as School Technology Committee President and School and Church websites webmaster, videographer and photographer. Jesse also donates his statistical expertise to non-profits that cannot afford a statistician.