Felipe Osorio is an applied statistician. He received the degree in statistical engineering from the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, in 2001, and the D.Sc. degree in statistics from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, in 2006. His research interests include statistical modelling, likelihood-based inference, and statistical diagnostics as well as the computational implementation of such techniques. He is the creator and the maintainer of several packages for the R statistical environment.