Bio: A Berkeley-educated California native, Toby Dylan Hocking
received his PhD in mathematics (machine learning) from Ecole Normale
Superiere de Cachan (Paris, France) in 2012. He worked as a postdoc in
Masashi Sugiyama's machine learning lab at Tokyo Tech in 2013, and in
Guillaume Bourque's genomics lab in McGill University, Montreal,
Canada (2014-2018). Since 2018 he is Assistant Professor at Northern
Arizona University, where he directs the Machine Learning Research
Lab. He has authored dozens of R packages, and has published 50+
peer-reviewed research papers on machine learning and statistical
software. He has mentored 30+ students in research projects, as well
as another 30+ open-source software contributors with R Project in
Google Summer of Code.