Dirk Eddelbuettel

Dirk Eddelbuettel has over twenty years of data science and quantitative research experience primarily from the financial sector. He is the author / coauthor of several dozen R packages on CRAN including Rcpp; co-creator of the Rocker Project for R use on Docker; creator / maintainer of three R SIG mailing list; editor of two CRAN Task Views; an editor at the Journal of Statistical Software; the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R, numerous CRAN packages and other quantitative software; an elected board member of the R Foundation; a founding member of the R/Finance conference series; has served on the program committee for several useR! conferences; given invited keynotes, talks or workshops about R, Finance and High Performance Computing in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan; has published papers in JSS, CSDA and other journals as well as a book on Rcpp in Springer useR! series; an adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign teaching a class on Data Science Programming Methods; and holds a MA and PhD in Mathematical Economics from EHESS in France, and a MSc in Industrial Engineering from KIT in Germany.