Roger D. Peng | |
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Occupation(s) | Professor, author, software developer |
Awards | ASA Fellow |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yale University (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Statistics and Data Science |
Sub-discipline | Environmental health, air pollution, climate change, software programming |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Website | https://rdpeng.org/ |
Roger D. Peng is an author and professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][2] Peng originally received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Yale University in 1999, before going on to study at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed a Master of Science in Statistics in 2001 and a PhD in Statistics in 2003.[3][4] The focus of his research has been on environmental health, specifically focusing on air pollution and climate change in his research.[2] Peng is also a software engineer who has authored numerous R packages focused on applying statistical methods necessary for a variety of topics. He has also created numerous resources including books, online courses, podcasts, blogs, and other articles to aid those learning data analysis.[1][3][5][6]