Heike Hofmann

Heike Hofmann is a Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work focuses on data visualization, statistical computing, and forensic statistics, with a strong emphasis on developing open-source software tools for data exploration in R. She actively contributes to academic research and software development.

• Current Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Email: hofmann@iastate.edu

Her research spans topics such as forensic toolmark analysis, machine learning explainability, and interactive visualization frameworks. She designs algorithms for bullet comparison and error rate assessment in forensic science, leveraging 3D imaging and statistical diagnostics.

Recent publications highlight her work on human factors in visual inference, automated forensic matching, and reproducible pipelines for functional data. Notably, she creates tools like the cmcR package for bullet land scan comparison and nullabor for statistical significance calculations.

Heike Hofmann contributes to software development with R packages including ggparallel (parallel coordinate plots), gglogo (sequence logos), and rotations (3D rotation analysis). Her GitHub activity shows consistent commits to statistical computing projects.