Alison Hill is a Data Scientist & Professional Educator at RStudio. Prior to joining RStudio, she was an Associate Professor and Center Assistant Director at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, where she was an NIH-funded Principal Investigator. Her work has been published in Pediatrics , Autism Research , and other peer-reviewed journals .

Alison regularly leads workshops and develops online learning materials on topics like reproducible research, machine learning, and data visualization. She is also a co-author of the book blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown . Alison lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and young daughter.