Scholar
George Ostrouchov
Google Scholar ID: OcrVGfkAAAAJ
University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired)
Citations & Impact
Citations
962
H-index
14
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
33
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the ASA, Fellow of the AAAS, and Elected Member of the ISI, recognized for his contributions to statistical computing, particularly to enable parallel computation on big data with statistical software.
Research Experience
- Distinguished Member of the R&D Staff in the Mathematics in Computation Section of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Joint Faculty Professor in the Business Analytics and Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee.
Education
- Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Statistics from Iowa State University; B.Math. (Honours, Co-Op) in Statistics from the University of Waterloo.
Background
- Research Interests: Statistical computing, particularly to enable parallel computation on big data; Professional Field: Statistics; Brief Introduction: He is the founder of the pbdR project, a set of highly scalable R packages for distributed and parallel computing and profiling in data science.
Miscellany
- Quotation: 'Statistics is the 'Physics' of Data', 'Statistics is to Machine Learning as Physics is to Engineering'
