We’re renewing the Stan Governing Body (SGB) with 2 seats up for grabs (I’m continuing my 2-year term). Current SGB members may still run, however they are not guaranteed to preserve their seats. As in previous years, we will use the Stan forum for nominations.
Please respond to this post to self-nominate for either a 1-year or 2-year term on SGB BEFORE MAY 18 (in two weeks). We encourage all nominees to briefly summarize their experiences with Stan and their goals for the SGB. Feel free to add links to any content you think is relevant. There is no requirement to be Stan developer. And if you know someone who you think would be a good fit for the SGB please let them know and encourage them to nominate themselves.
For other details about the election and links to information about the SGB see Stan Wiki: Stan Governing Body. For examples of past nominations, see the last year’s thread. You can also ask in this thread or send me a message to ask more about SGB.
My name is Jelena Pantel, and I am a researcher studying the impacts of genetic variation and rapid evolution for community ecological dynamics. I am a Professor of Ecology at Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, in Besançon, France. I am writing to nominate myself as a member of the Stan Governing Body. I am a frequent Stan user, primarily working to fit empirical data to ODEs, and to estimate measurement and observation uncertainty in field and experimental data in community ecology. I also teach Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, and am accustomed to introducing new users to the basics of Stan.
My primary aims as a member of the SGB would be:
to contribute to the Stan community and development,
contribute resources for the (typical) gaps between field ecological data and fitted models,
and develop more resources (i.e. case studies) for new Stan users in ecology and evolution.
I look forward to an opportunity to give back to the resources available to users and contribute to the project that has been essential to my research.
My name is Yanmin Wang, and I am a faculty member at Anhui University of Finance and Economics in Bengbu, China. I would like to nominate myself for a position on the Stan Governing Body.
My research interests focus on the application of Bayesian statistics in the social sciences and machine learning. As a frequent Stan user, I deeply appreciate the contributions that the Stan community has made to statistical modeling and open-source scientific computing.
I would be honored to have the opportunity to serve the community and contribute to the continued growth and broader adoption of Stan around the world.
Hello I am Jesse Piburn an applied research scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab in the US. I would like to re-nominate myself for a 1-year term to the SGB. I served as an SGB member this past year as the finance liaison to NumFocus. In this role I helped on the administrative side to ensure all necessary payments and contracts were processed and handled as needed.
I would be happy to continue in this role and continue helping the Stan community.