Stan is a team effort that could not be carried out without the generous support of grants, foundations, sponsors, and volunteer developers.

Core Developers (in order of joining)

Andrew Gelman
Columbia University

Bob Carpenter
Flatiron Institute

Daniel Lee


Ben Goodrich
Columbia University

Michael Betancourt
Independent Consultant

Jiqiang Guo
Lucus Advisors

Allen Riddell
Indiana University

Marco Inacio
University of São Paulo/UFSCar

Jeffrey Arnold
Instacart

Mitzi Morris
Columbia University

Rob Trangucci
University of Michigan

Rob Goedman
Independent Consultant

Brian Lau
CNRS, Paris

Jonah Gabry
Columbia University

Robert L. Grant
BayesCamp

Krzysztof Sakrejda
UMass, Amherst

Aki Vehtari
Aalto University

Rayleigh Lei
University of Michigan

Sebastian Weber
Novartis Pharma

Charles Margossian
Columbia University

Vincent Picaud
CEA, France

Imad Ali
PlayStation

Sean Talts
Columbia University

Ben Bales
Columbia University

Ari Hartikainen
Aalto University

Matthijs Vákár
Utrecht University

Andrew Johnson
Aalto University

Dan Simpson
University of Toronto

Yi Zhang
Metrum Research Group

Paul Bürkner
University of Stuttgart

Steve Bronder
Capital One, Columbia University

Rok Cesnovar
University of Ljubljana

Erik Strumbelj
University of Ljubljana

Edward A. Roualdes
California State University, Chico

Andre Zapico
SAS

Ryan Bernstein
Columbia University

Michael Thomas


Tadej Ciglarič
University of Ljubljana

Marco Colombo
Independent Consultant

Adam Haber
Weizmann Institute

Martin Modrák
Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Nicusor Serban


Maria Gorinova
University of Edinburgh

Duco Veen
Utrecht University

Hyunji Moon
Seoul National University, NextOpt

Sean Pinkney
Omnicom Media Group

Simon Dirmeier
Artificialy SA

Shinyoung Kim
Kookmin University

Måns Magnusson
Uppsala University

Hamada S. Badr
Johns Hopkins University

Yuling Yao
Flatiron Institute

Brian Ward
Flatiron Institute

Nicholas DiDio
Stevens Institute of Technology

Johann D. Gaebler
Stanford University

Development Team Alumni

Developers who have made important contributions in the past, but are no longer contributing actively:

Matt Hoffman
while at:  Columbia University;  Adobe Creative Technologies Lab

Michael Malecki
while at:  Columbia University;  YouGov plc;  Crunch.io

Yuanjun Gao
while at:  Columbia University

Peter Li
while at:  Columbia University

Alp Kucukelbir
while at:  Columbia University

Dustin Tran
while at:  Columbia University

Marcus Brubaker
while at:  York University

Join the Team

For more info on how join the the development team, read about how to contribute to Stan.