Biography:Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel is a Canadian statistician, data scientist and researcher. He is the author of the open-source software package Rcpp,[1] written in the R programming language, and has also written the textbook Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp[2] on the topic.[3] He is co-founder of the R In Finance Conference. In addition, he has contributed to many packages in R as well as the Debian project. He is also a co-creator of the Rocker Project bringing Docker to R.
Early life and education
Eddelbuettel has an M.Sc in Industrial Engineering (Comp.Sci./OR) from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He received an M.A. and a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France .[4]
Career
has been a contributor to CRAN for over a decade. He is the co-author/maintainer of more than sixty packages.[5] He is also the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for R and other quantitative software, editor of the CRAN Task Views for Finance and High-Performance Computing, co-founder of the annual R/Finance conference, and an editor of the Journal of Statistical Software.[6] He is a member of the R Foundation.[7] and contributed to R-Hub.[8]
Eddelbuettel has been interviewed by Data Science Los Angeles and others.[9][10] He frequently gives talks to the R community.[11][12][13]
He worked as a senior quantitative analyst from 2008 to 2012, and as a senior financial engineer from 2012 to 2018.[14] Currently he is working as a principal software engineer in Chicago.[15]
Eddelbuettel joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. He works as an adjunct Clinical Professor in Statistics where he created and teaches STAT 447: Data Science Programming Methods.[16]
References
- ↑ "Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration | Eddelbuettel | Journal of Statistical Software". Journal of Statistical Software 40: 1–18. 13 April 2011. doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i08. http://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v040i08. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer. www.springer.com. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9781461468677. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ "Rcpp book: Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp". http://www.rcpp.org/book/.
- ↑ Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer. www.springer.com. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9781461468677#aboutAuthors. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ "Cran Project, Maintainer". https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html#summary_by_maintainer.
- ↑ Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp | Dirk Eddelbuettel | Springer. www.springer.com. https://www.springer.com/in/book/9781461468677#aboutAuthors. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ↑ "New leadership of the R Foundation". http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/12/new-leadership-of-the-r-foundation.html.
- ↑ "R Consortium funds first community project, accepting proposals for more | inside-R | A Community Site for R". http://www.inside-r.org/blogs/2015/11/02/r-consortium-funds-first-community-project-accepting-proposals-more.
- ↑ "The R-Files: Dirk Eddelbuettel". http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/02/the-r-files-dirk-eddlebuettel.html.
- ↑ "Dirk Eddelbuettel, the useR! 2014 Interview | Data Science Los Angeles". http://datascience.la/dirk-eddelbuettel-the-user-2014-interview/.
- ↑ "How to call C++ from R with ease". http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/02/how-to-call-c-from-r-with-ease.html.
- ↑ "Google TechTalk on integrating R". http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2010/11/google-techtalk.html.
- ↑ "Talks". http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/presentations.html.
- ↑ Reed Albergotti (25 August 2013). "Indictments Expected in Alleged Trading Code Theft". WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323980604579031034025132054. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ↑ "Linkedin: Dirk Eddelbuettel". https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirkeddelbuettel/.
- ↑ "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, profile". https://stat.illinois.edu/directory/profile/deddel.
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