Bastiaan Quast

Bastiaan Quast
Residence Geneva, Switzerland
Alma mater Graduate Institute
Known for rnn (software), datasets.load
Scientific career
Fields economics, data science
Institutions UNCTAD, International Telecommunication Union
Doctoral advisor Richard Baldwin, Jean-Louis Arcand

Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch-Swiss economist and data scientist . He is the main author of the open-source rnn deep-learning framework in the R programming language, and the datasets.load package. He also developed the Broadband Commission Targets.

Early life and education

Bastiaan Quast graduated from University of Groningen with a bachelor's degree in Economics and 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 Graduate Institute 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.[1][2][3]

Career

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. While working at UNCTAD, Quast developed the popular package datasets.load, which is part of the top 10% of most downloaded R packages.

After moving to ITU, Quast developed the 2025 Broadband Commission Targets[4], which were released at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018.

Bibliography

Kende, Michael; Quast, Bastiaan (2016). Promoting Content in Africa. Geneva, Switzerland: Internet Society.

Kende, Michael; Quast, Bastiaan (2016). Promoting Content in Africa Keynote. Geneva, Switzerland: Internet Society.

Kummritz, Victor; Quast, Bastiaan (2017). Global value chains in developing economies. London, United Kingdom: VoxEU.

References

  1. ↑ Taylor, Emily (February 16, 2017). "Bridging the Digital Divide: infrastructure skills and women's empowerment" (PDF). G20 Insights.
  2. ↑ "Les motifs de la lenteur d'Internet en Afrique | Info Afrique". Info Afrique (in French). 2016-08-30. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  3. ↑ Manager, African (2016-08-30). "Internet Society se penche sur l'Afrique". African Manager (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  4. ↑ "unctad.org | e-week 2018". unctad.org. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
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