A partial list of people that I admire and/or work(ed) with (in pseudo alphabetical order):

Abigail Panter

Albert Maydeu-Olivares

Andrea Hussong

Andy Hayes

Bud MacCallum

Dave Thissen

Chip Eveland

Chuanshu Ji

Dan Bauer

Dave Flora

Donna Coffman

John Hipp

Kris Preacher

Lyle Jones

Mathilda du Toit

Michael Browne

Mike Edwards

Nathan Vandergrift

Patrick Curran

Peg Burchinal

Prabu David

R Darrell Bock

RJ Wirth

Robert Gibbons

Shuangyue Zhang

Stephen du Toit

Susan Ennett