Jim is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), and has been working with R for over 5 years. Before joining NUIG in 1995 he worked as a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation. He is author of two CRAN packages (aimsir17 and pysd2r), and has also written a textbook on system dynamics modelling with R. Jim’s research interests includes public health and epidemiology, where he combines extensive use of the tidyverse with mathematical modelling approaches, including the R package deSolve.

Teaching language(s): English