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Hi there šŸ‘‹

Iā€™m a software engineer and (mostly retired) theatrical technician and designer. In the summer of 2021 I joined the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute where I primarily work as a member of the Stan development team focusing on stanc3, our OCaml-based compiler for Stan.

My interests lie in programming languages and other rules-based systems. I am not currently working on anything theatrical, but when I do I focus on lighting design and event control systems.

See more of my work on https://brianward.dev/

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  1. The Stan transpiler (from Stan to C++ and beyond).

    OCaml 155 51

  2. BridgeStan provides efficient in-memory access through Python, Julia, and R to the methods of a Stan model.

    Python 110 12

  3. CmdStanPy is a lightweight interface to Stan for Python users which provides the necessary objects and functions to compile a Stan program and fit the model to data using CmdStan.

    Python 196 82

  5. Easily wrap a Stan model in a Python package

    Python 4 1

  6. Easy, minimal interface to the Stan samplers in several languages

    Python 9 1