Dirk Eddelbuettel
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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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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]
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