Kevin Ushey is a software engineer at Posit, and previously worked as as a statistical programmer at the rglab within the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Kevin is a tool builder – he enjoys developing computational tools that help researchers and scientists to achieve their analytic goals.
Kevin completed his MSc in Statistics at the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Jenny Bryan. His thesis involved the study of gene-gene and gene-Rx interaction effects, and statistical assessment of these epistatic effects in yeast growth curves.