Mikael Jagan - New member of the R Core team

Martin Maechler <[email protected]> Thu, 7 May 2026 11:45:22 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.r.general
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We are happy to announce that Mikael Jagan has accepted to join the R core team.

He has been an active contributor to the R project for several
years, reporting bugs and proposing bug fixes and enhancements
  ==> https://bugs.r-project.org/buglist.cgi?email3=jaganmn2%2540gmail.com

Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important
Matrix package (becoming an expert in S4 ..) and more recently the lme4 and glmmTMB packages;
some of which is visible at  https://github.com/jaganmn

Previously working in Ben Bolker's group at McMaster (Hamilton, Ontario (CA)),
he is going to start a new job as Research Software Engineer
with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the Boston area.

We are happy to welcome him on board of the R Core team !

For the R Core team,
Martin Maechler

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