Dr. Buehler is a bioinformatician with wide-ranging experience in the computational analysis of genomic studies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with earlier training in Physics. He has been using R for over 10 years primarily in the areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. He has over 20 years experience working in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and government, and specializes in mathematical modeling, statistics, machine learning, and the analysis and integration of large-scale biological data sets.
Dr. Dasgupta is a biostatistician and data scientist with experience in statistical modeling and machine learning, bioinformatics, optimization, signal processing, and data visualization. He holds a PhD in Biostatistics with earlier training in Mathematical Statistics. He has been using R for over 20 years for a wide variety of applications in biomedical research, as well as for data-driven reports and presentations. He co-organizes the Statistical Programming DC meetup (formerly R Users Group DC) and served on the Board of Data Community DC. He regularly gives workshops and webinars on using R and Python for data analysis, machine learning and visualization. He currently serves as co-chair of the Bioinformatics and Data Science department at FAES.