Fernando Pérez
Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley Assistant Professor
Berkeley, California, United States
Dr. Pérez is an assistant professor in Statistics at
UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist in the Department of Data Science and Technology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After completing a PhD in particle physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, his postdoctoral research in applied mathematics centered on the development of fast algorithms for the solution of partial differential equations in multiple dimensions. Today, his research focuses on creating tools for modern computational research and data science across domain disciplines, with an emphasis on high-level languages, interactive and literate computing, and reproducible research. He created IPython while a graduate student in 2001 and co-founded its successor,
Project Jupyter. The Jupyter team collaborates openly to create the next generation of tools for human-driven computational exploration, data analysis, scientific insight and education. There are now over 2,000,000 Jupyter notebooks on GitHub. In May 2018, Project Jupyter was awarded the
ACM System Software Award.