In Person
8 - 11 July, 2024
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The virtual program will take place on 2 July. Please see the virtual schedule page for more information.

Kurt Hornik

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Professor of Statistics & Mathematics, Chair, Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics

Kurt Hornik was born and raised in Austria, and holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Technische Universität Wien. Since 2003 he is professor of statistics and mathematics at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, where he currently also serves as chair of the Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics, and program director of the highly ranked master’s program in Quantitative Finance. He has been an R Core member for more than 30 years, and among the principal architects and maintainers of CRAN for more than 25 years. His main research area is modern computational statistics, with pillars in statistical and machine learning, statistical computing and graphics, and stochastic modeling (“applied statistics”).

My Speakers Sessions

09:30 CEST

Keynote: Kurt Hornik, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Salzburg I + II