Rok Roskar

Rok Roskar

Chief System Scientist & Head of Engineering
Renku
Leadership & Administration
(Alumni)

Rok obtained a B.A. in Physics from Washington University in St.Louis in 2003. After obtaining his PhD in theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Washington in 2010, Rok spent several years as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Science, University of Zürich. Seeking new challenges, he moved to the ETH Scientific IT Services group, where he helped researchers across different ETH domains solve their (big) data analysis problems. He specialized in optimizing and scaling up data analysis tasks by mapping them to high-performance computing resources. Since July 2017 he has been at the Swiss Data Science Center developing Renku, the Center's data science platform.

Projects

RenSho

Completed
Creating a comprehensive platform to enhance reproducibility in data-science driven research with Renku and Shogun

Publications

Mentioned in

Case Studies

Contact us

Let’s talk Data Science

Do you need our services or expertise?
Contact us for your next Data Science project!