Contributions

Papers, presentations and practical contributions from the road so far.

Contributions. Over the years I have contributed to the statistical programming and data community through publications, conference presentations, practical tooling and participation in professional events. Much of my work happens within companies and teams and therefore remains private.


Papers, presentations, and practical work. This page collects a selection of publications, presentations and other publicly available contributions.

Speaking and professional events

SAS Innovate On Tour Amsterdam

2026 · Speaker with Björn Daems on an argenx team effort with Stijn Rogiers, Sandeep Juneja and others

Shared argenx’ journey from LSAF towards SAS Viya and SAS Clinical Acceleration.

Publications

Interactive medical and safety monitoring in clinical trials with clinDataReview

2024 · Journal article

Authors: Laure Cougnaud, Margaux Faes, Dirk Van Krunckelsven, Arne De Roeck, Michela Pasetto, Ann Fieuw, Claus Andersen and Paul Meyvisch

Co-author of a Frontiers in Medicine article describing clinDataReview, a validated open-source reporting tool for ongoing clinical trial data monitoring and safety review.

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Design and power analysis: n and confidence intervals of means

2008 · Journal article

Authors: José Fernando García Pérez, Juan Pascual i Llobell, María Dolores Frías Navarro, Dirk Van Krunckelsven and Sergio Murguí Pérez

Co-author of a Psicothema article on statistical power, sample size and confidence intervals of means.

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Conference papers and presentations

ADaM on a Diet: Preventing Wide and Heavy Analysis Datasets

2011 · PHUSE paper & presentation

Author: Dirk Van Krunckelsven

A practical contribution on keeping CDISC ADaM analysis datasets maintainable, focused and scalable.

Incremental Return Codes: Be Warned! About Everything.

2013 · PHUSE paper / presentation

Author: Dirk Van Krunckelsven

Practical approach for tracking and reporting multiple non-fatal issues in SAS programs using incremental return codes, powers of two and bitwise operations.

%SUPP2PAR_v1

2015 · PHUSE paper, presentation & code

Author: Dirk Van Krunckelsven

A practical SAS macro contribution for merging SDTM supplemental qualifier data back onto parent domains, supporting more usable standards adoption.

Areas of interest

Statistical Programming Data Platforms Digital Data Flow Platform Modernization Metadata-driven Development AI in Regulated Environments Automation Technical Leadership Change Management Team Development
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