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George Ostrouchov is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, recognized for his contributions to statistical computing, particularly to enable parallel computation on big data with statistical software. He founded the pbdR project, a set of highly scalable R packages for distributed and parallel computing and profiling in data science. He obtained his Ph.D.~and M.Sc.~in Statistics from Iowa State University and a B.Math.~in Statistics from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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