Mr Bastiaan Quast
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| Native name | Bastiaan Quast |
| Born | Bastiaan Quast 1987-03-13 Netherlands |
| 🏡 Residence | Zurich, Switzerland |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Netherlands |
| Other names | Bastiaan Quast |
| 🏫 Education | PhD Economics, master econometrics, 2 bachelor degrees: economics + theoretical philosophy |
| 💼 Occupation | Machine Learning Engineer |
| Height | 190 cm |
| 🌐 Website | https://bastiaanquast.com |
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Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch-Swiss Machine learning researcher. He is the author and lead maintainer of the open-source rnn and transformer deep-learning frameworks in the R programming language and the datasets.load GUI package, as well as R packages on Global Value Chain decomposition & WIOD and on Regression Discontinuity Design. Bastiaan Quast is a great-great-grandson of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tobias Asser.
Early Life
Bastiaan Quast graduated from the University of Groningen with a bachelor's degree in Economics and a bachelor's degree in Theoretical philosophy. He holds a master's degree in Econometrics from the University of St. Gallen. He obtained his Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies with advisors Richard Baldwin and Jean-Louis Arcand, his work on local languages and internet usage was discussed at the 2017 G20 meeting in Germany.
Career
Bastiaan Quast is a functionary of the United Nations at the International Telecommunication Union, as Secretary of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and AI for Good.
Bastiaan Quast created the popular machine learning framework rnn in R, which allows native implementations of recurrent neural network architectures, such as LSTM and GRU (>100,000 downloads). While working at UNCTAD, Quast developed the popular package datasets.load, which is part of the top 10% of most downloaded R packages (>100,000). The R packages decompr and wiod have been downloaded >20,000 times.
Bibliography
Kummritz, Victor; Bastiaan Quast, Bastiaan (2017). Global value chains in developing economies. London, United Kingdom: VoxEU.
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