Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel is a Canadian statistician, data scientist and researcher. He is the author of the open-source software package Rcpp, written in the R programming language, and has also written the textbook "Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp" on the topic. 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. Career. <time>Eddelbuettel</time> has been a contributor to CRAN for over a decade. He is the co-author/maintainer of more than sixty packages. 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. He is a  member of the R Foundation. and contributed to R-Hub. Eddelbuettel has been interviewed by Data Science Los Angeles and others. He frequently gives talks to the R community. He worked as a senior quantitative analyst from 2008 to 2012, and as a senior financial engineer from 2012 to 2018. Currently he is working as a principal software engineer in Chicago. Eddelbuettel joined University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. He works as a (adjunct) Clinical Professor in Statistics where he created and teaches STAT 447: Data Science Programming Methods. He is known to be kind and helpful toward  his students.