Henrik Bengtsson
Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolHenrik Bengtsson is an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCSF with 20 years of experience bridging statistical research and software engineering. A PhD-trained mathematical statistician and seasoned R core contributor, he authors widely used R packages (including future and matrixStats) and has improved stability and correctness in flagship tooling like devtools. His career spans high-throughput genomics research at Berkeley and WEHI to teaching and production-grade software development, reflecting deep expertise in large-scale array data and reproducible computational workflows. Based in Berkeley, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic open-source craftsmanship, often focusing on maintainability and edge-case correctness that keep research software reliable in production.
20 years of coding experience
Visiting PhD, Statistics, Visiting PhD, Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Mathematical Statistics, PhD, Mathematical Statistics at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityComputer Science, Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Molecular Biology at UC Santa BarbaraDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, History of Economics, Philosophy, Astronomy, Business, and Business Law, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, History of Economics, Philosophy, Astronomy, Business, and Business Law at Lund University
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
r-lib/devtools
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Tools to make an R developer's life easier
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Henrik primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the R package `devtools`. They focused on addressing issues related to package dependency parsing, handling spaces in version specifications, and correcting errors in the spell-checking functionality. Additionally, the user refactored code by explicitly importing 'methods' functions and updating function calls to enhance code clarity and compatibility. These changes suggest a focus on improving the package's stability, correctness, and maintainability.
r-packagepackage-creationrstatslifer
HenrikBengtsson/easycatfs
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:94 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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