Tim Dennis

Tim Dennis is the co-PI of the UCLA Open Source Program Office (OSPO), part of the UC OSPO Network, and the Director of the Data Science Center at UCLA Library. With expertise in data services in academia, he leads efforts to support data initiatives like the UCLA DataSquad and UCLA Dataverse. A regular user of R, Python, SQL, and command-line tools, Tim has extensive experience helping researchers and students apply these tools. As a member of The Carpentries, he co-leads workshops that teach foundational coding and data science skills globally, emphasizing concise, practical instruction.