Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

education = Robert College alma_mater = New York University (BS)University of California, Los Angeles (MS, PhD) workplaces = Duke UniversityUniversity of EdinburghBuck consultants doctoral_advisor = Jan de Leeuw and professor of the practice at Duke University, and a professional educator at RStudio. She is the author of several open source statistics textbooks She is the chair-elect of the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association. Previously, she was a senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh.

Education Çetinkaya-Rundel grew up in Turkey and graduated from Robert College, before coming to the United States for her undergraduate studies to study actuarial science at New York University. After working as an actuary at Buck Consultants, was supervised of Jan de Leeuw.

Research and career Çetinkaya-Rundel coauthored three open-access textbooks, OpenIntro Statistics, Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation, and OpenIntro: Advanced High School Statistics. She is an author on the associated R package, openintro. Çetinkaya-Rundel is also a proponent of reproducible analysis in the context of statistics education.

Awards and honours Çetinkaya-Rundel was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2020. She was elected chair of the ASA Statistical Computing program in 2021.

Selected publications R for Data Science Introductory statistics with randomization and simulation OpenIntro Statistics