Governance - R Consortium

The primary mission of the R Consortium is to develop and implement infrastructure projects to support the R community. As a Linux Foundation Project, the R Community embraces principles of openness and collaboration as defined in the code of conduct.

Board of Directors

The business of the foundation is managed by its Board of Directors, composed of appointed Platinum members of the R Consortium, annually elected Silver members of the R Consortium, and the ISC appointed director as defined in the ByLaws.

Mehar Singh

Procogia (Silver Director)(R Consortium Chair)

Mehar founded ProCogia a decade ago to offer more value and better service to clients than traditional consulting firms. Mehar has a background in Electrical Engineering and ...

Mehar founded ProCogia a decade ago to offer more value and better service to clients than traditional consulting firms. Mehar has a background in Electrical Engineering and has worked primarily in consulting, technology and telecom sectors. He has held board positions at R Consortium, University of Washington, Society of Punjabi Engineers & Technologists to name a few. He is passionate about open-source technology, developing innovative products, skydiving and sea fishing.

David Smith

Microsoft (Platinum Member) (R Consortium Treasurer)

David Smith is a developer advocate at Microsoft, with a focus on data science and the R community.

David Smith is a developer advocate at Microsoft, with a focus on data science and the R community. With a background in Statistics, he writes regularly about applications of R at the Revolutions blog (blog.revolutionanalytics.com), and is a co-author of “Introduction to R”, the R manual. Follow David on Twitter as @revodavid

Vincent Shen

Roche (Platinum Member Representative)(R Consortium Secretary)

Vincent Shen is from Roche PD Data Sciences, and is currently the Chief Product Owner for NEST, which is a set of open-sourced R packages that generate, deliver and ...

Vincent Shen is from Roche PD Data Sciences, and is currently the Chief Product Owner for NEST, which is a set of open-sourced R packages that generate, deliver and catalog insights for clinical studies reporting and analysis. During his 9 years at Roche, Vincent has taken various data science-related roles in areas such as medical affairs, real-world evidence, and product development. Vincent completed his Bachelor of Science degree from University of Hong Kong and Master of Mathematics from University of Waterloo.

Michael Lawrence

R Foundation (R Foundation Representative)

Michael is a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology department at Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), based in South San Francisco, CA.

Michael is a scientist in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology department at Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED), based in South San Francisco, CA. There he leads the development of tools, applications and environments for analyzing genomic data using R and Bioconductor. His research interests are in visualization, software interfacing, and genomic data manipulation. Michael is a member of the Bioconductor Technical Advisory Board, the R Core team, and the R Foundation Board.

Henrik Bengtsson

R Foundation (R Foundation Representative) (ISC Chairperson)

Henrik Bengtsson is an Associated Professor at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the R Foundation, with a background in Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics.

Henrik Bengtsson is an Associated Professor at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the R Foundation, with a background in Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics. He has used R since 2000 for applied research in statistics and bioinformatics. He develops statistical methods, scientific computational software, and programming tools. His work includes R packages for science (e.g. matrixStats, and PSCBS, aroma.affymetrix) and software development (e.g. future, profmem, startup, and R.rsp).

Tracy Teal

Posit (Platinum Member Representative)

Tracy Teal is the Open Source Program Director at Posit Software, PBC. Previously, she was a co-founder of Data Carpentry and the Executive Director ...

Tracy Teal is the Open Source Program Director at Posit Software, PBC. Previously, she was a co-founder of Data Carpentry and the Executive Director of The Carpentries. She developed open source bioinformatics software as an assistant professor at Michigan State University and holds a PhD in computation and neural systems from California Institute of Technology. Tracy is involved in the open source software and reproducible research communities, including serving on advisory committees for NumFOCUS, pyOpenSci, and carbonplan, as well as this board, and has been working with open source communities, developing curriculum, and teaching people how to work with data and code as a developer, instructor and project leader throughout her career.

Jared Lander

Lander Analytics (Silver Member Representative)

Jared P. Lander is Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York R Conference and ...

Jared P. Lander is Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, the Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York R Conference and R in Government Conference, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, and a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. He is the author of R for Everyone (now in its second edition), a book about R Programming geared toward Data Scientists and Non-Statisticians alike. Jared is a frequent speaker at conferences, universities and meetups around the world.

Sumesh Kalappurakal

Janssen (Silver Member Representative)

Sumesh Kalappurakal, Heading Methodology and Innovation team within clinical and statistical programming in Janssen R&D.

Sumesh Kalappurakal, Heading Methodology and Innovation team within clinical and statistical programming in Janssen R&D. Sumesh has been with Janssen R&D for more than 16 years and led a Medical Affairs programming team for more than 12+ years. In his current role, Sumesh and his team working on Innovative solutions using open-source platforms(R and Python) in building methodologies, standards and web applications using open-source platform to support portfolio needs in clinical and statistical programming functions. His team also engaged in more advance automation techniques using NLP, AI/ML along with RPA to bring efficiency in the clinical trial operational space. Sumesh and his team working on a strategy in implementing open-source platform (“R”) as an additional analytical platform for all clinical study submission activities for clinical and statistical programming teams.

Mike K Smith

Pfizer (Silver Member Representative)

Mike K Smith, Lead, R Centre of Excellence and Senior Director Statistics at Pfizer. Mike is a professional geek, helping colleagues from the business lines understand the power of ...

Mike K Smith, Lead, R Centre of Excellence and Senior Director Statistics at Pfizer. Mike is a professional geek, helping colleagues from the business lines understand the power of reproducibility, automation and writing good code and helping the IT department understand the needs of the business lines.s. He is passionate about driving business outcomes through primary research, data and alternative data solutions as well as statistical analysis.

Uday Preetham Palukuru

Merck (Silver Director)

Uday Preetham Palukuru is a Standards lead at Merck&Co., providing leadership to develop and maintain global standards for ADaM implementation, R package development, ...

Uday Preetham Palukuru is a Standards lead at Merck &Co., providing leadership to develop and maintain global standards for ADaM implementation, R package development, Open Source package qualification, Computing Platform enhancements and compliance management tools. He has contributed to various internal and external R packages and is a member of the R Validation Hub Executive committee. He actively promotes the use of open source software in clinical trial data analysis via forums and paper publications. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from Temple University.

Infrastructure Steering Committee

An Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is responsible for the identification, selection and oversight of infrastructure projects, as well as directing best practices and community leadership within the R community. Voting representatives are appointed by the Platinum and Silver members of the R Consortium, as well as an elected member from the Silver membership class and the project leads for all top level projects as directed in the ISC Charter.

Hadley Wickham

R Studio (Platinum Member)

Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland.

Hadley is Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (the tidyverse: including ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr, and readr) and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science. Learn more on his website, http://hadley.nz.

Henrik Bengtsson

R Foundation (R Foundation Representative) (ISC Chairperson)

Henrik Bengtsson is an Associated Professor at University of California, San Francisco, a member of the R Foundation, with a background in Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics.

Michael Helbraun

Microsoft (Platinum Member)

Michael Helbraun is a Principal Architect for Data & AI on Microsoft's Digital Transformation Partnership team, where he works with strategic customers across Latin America.

Michael Helbraun is a Principal Architect for Data & AI on Microsoft's Digital Transformation Partnership team, where he works with strategic customers across Latin America. He holds a BS in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA focused on Economics and Operations from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Gábor Csárdi

R-Hub Project Lead (Voting member)

Joseph Rickert

R USER GROUP SUPPORT PROJECT LEAD (VOTING MEMBER)

Joseph, RStudio’s “Ambassador at Large” to the R Community and editor of the R Views blog, has been focused on promoting the R language and supporting the R Community since he joined Revolution Analytics in 2009. In addition to serving on the R Consortium’s Board of Directors, he is a member of the ISC and administers the R User Group Support Program. In the past, Joseph held technical, marketing, and sales positions with several prominent Silicon Valley startups including, Sytek Inc., Alantec, Parallan Computer and Scotts Valley Instruments as well as with larger organizations including CSC, Agilent Technologies and Microsoft. Joseph is a member of the ASA, and a Life Member of the IEEE. He has experience working with standards committees including the IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD Working Group and the IDEMA PRML technical committee. Joseph studied Classics and Mathematics as an undergraduate at Franklin & Marshall College and earned an M.A. in Humanities and an M.S. in Computational Statistics from the California State University. You can follow him on Twitter as @RStudioJoe.

Eric Milliman

Biogen (Platinum member)

Eric is a data scientist in the Global Analytics and Data Sciences department at Biogen, based in Cambridge, MA.

Robert Müller

Roche (Platinum member)

Yanina Bellini Saibene

R-Ladies

Nicholas Masel

Janssen R&D (Silver member)

Nan Xiao

Merck (Silver member)

Nan is a statistician from Merck & Co., Inc. working in the Methodology Research group in the Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences (BARDS) department.

Leadership

As a project operating within the Linux Foundation, the project staff from the Linux Foundation focuses on project growth and health, ensuring a vendor-neutral environment for collaboration.

Joseph Rickert

Executive Director

Joseph has been active in the R Community since he joined Revolution Analytics in 2009 and has held prominent, community-facing positions at both the R Consortium and RStudio (now renamed posit). He is deeply involved in multiple R Consortium technical working groups, is an organizer of the Bay Area useR Group (BARUG), and has been on the R/Medicine conference organizing committee since the first conference in 2018. Joseph served on the R Consortium Board of Directors from August 2016 to July 2023, serving as Chair from 2020.

Dr. Amanda Martin

Director of Program Management

Dr. Amanda Martin is a Director of Program Management for the R Consortium. Amanda has taught and managed technical projects since 2005 with the single desire to improve the entire world.

Julian Suarez

Program Coordinator

Julian Suarez is the Program Coordinator for the R Consortium. Julian is passionate about Open Source and its integration in high technology industries.