Rohan Alexander

I am an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, jointly appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of Statistical Sciences. I am interested in developing workflows that improve the trustworthiness of data science and tend to be especially focused on the role of code and testing.

I co-founded The Data Workshop, a weekly, free, online, seminar series that brings together academia and industry to share data science and AI best practice. You can sign up to receive email invitations.

My book, Telling Stories With Data, argues that a trustworthiness revolution is needed in data science, and proposes a view of what it could look like. It has been strongly endorsed, including: Andrew Gelman "I absolutely love this book", Kosuke Imai "I highly recommend this unique book!", Sir David Spiegelhalter "[A]n extraordinary, wonderful, book...", Daniela Witten "An excellent book", and Richard McElreath "This is not another statistics book. It is much better than that." You can buy a print copy or access the free online version.

I hold a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University where I focused on economic history and was supervised by John Tang (chair), Martine Mariotti, Tim Hatton, and Zach Ward.

I am married to Monica Alexander, and we have two young children.