Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Affiliation
Duke University and RStudio

Educational Background
University of California, Los Angeles: PhD, Statistics (2011)
University of California, Los Angeles: MS, Statistics (2008)
New York University: BS, Actuarial Science (2004)

About Mine
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is the director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of the practice in the department of statistical science at Duke University. She also works as a professional educator at RStudio.

Mine’s work focuses on innovation in statistics pedagogy, with an emphasis on computation, reproducible research, student-centered learning, and open-source education. She works to integrate computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex data sets. She also organizes ASA DataFest, an annual two-day competition in which teams of undergraduate students work to reveal insights into a rich and complex data set. Finally, Mine works on the OpenIntro project, whose mission is to make educational products that are free and transparent and to lower barriers to education. As part of this project, she co-authored three open-source introductory statistics textbooks. She also teaches the popular Statistics with R MOOC on Coursera, as well as numerous courses on DataCamp.

In 2016, Mine was honored with the ASA Waller Education Award. She is also the recipient of the 2015 JSM Best Paper Award in the Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences and the 2014 Duke University David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award for Teaching Excellence.

Mine was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. After completing high school there, she came to the United States for college. She completed her undergraduate degree in actuarial science at NYU and worked as an actuarial consultant for two years in New York. She then moved to Los Angeles for graduate school and earned her MS and PhD at UCLA. In 2011, she started her faculty position at Duke University and, since 2016, has also been working as a professional educator at RStudio.