Scholar
Bob Carpenter
Google Scholar ID: kPtKWAwAAAAJ
Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Mathematics
Citations & Impact
Citations
11,805
H-index
19
i10-index
28
Publications
20
Co-authors
39
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Co-founder and key contributor to the Stan project, which has been supported by a strong team of developers and a supportive community of users and educators.
Research Experience
- Currently a senior research scientist at the Flatiron Institute, primarily working on Stan, a probabilistic programming language and inference engine. Previously, he was a research scientist at Columbia University for ten years, where he co-founded the Stan project, designed its programming language and automatic differentiation library, answered user and developer queries, and wrote code, documentation, and research grants. Before that, he spent ten years writing production code in industry for speech recognition, search, and natural language processing. Earlier in his career, he held academic positions at Bell Labs and Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on natural language syntax, semantics, parsing, and programming language theory.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in cognitive science and computer science; B.S. from Michigan State University in mathematics.
Background
- Computational statistician, software developer. Research interests include computational statistics, simulation, applied statistical methodology, and applying Bayesian statistics to science.
Miscellany
- Based in New York City.
