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The official Jupyter Conference
Aug 21-22, 2018: Training
Aug 22-24, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Fernando Perez

Fernando Perez
Associate Researcher, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Website | @fperez_org

Fernando Pérez is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a founding investigator of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at UC Berkeley, created in 2013. 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 continues to lead its evolution into Project Jupyter, now as a collaborative effort with a talented team that does all the hard work. Fernando regularly lectures about scientific computing and data science and is a member of the Python Software Foundation, a founding member of NumFOCUS, and a National Academy of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation. Fernando holds a PhD in particle physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, which he followed with postdoctoral research in applied mathematics and developing numerical algorithms.

Sessions

8:50am–8:55am Thursday, August 23, 2018
Location: Grand Ballroom
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai), Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian Granger (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
JupyterCon cochairs Paco Nathan, Fernando Pérez, and Brian Granger open the first day of keynotes. Read more.
8:50am–8:55am Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Grand Ballroom
Paco Nathan (derwen.ai), Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian Granger (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
JupyterCon cochairs Paco Nathan, Fernando Pérez, and Brian Granger open the second day of keynotes. Read more.
10:05am–10:20am Friday, August 24, 2018
Location: Grand Ballroom
Fernando Perez (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 2 ratings)
In 2018, UC Berkeley launched a new major in data science, anchored by two core courses that are the fastest-growing in the history of the university. Fernando Pérez discusses the program and explains how the core courses, which now reach roughly 40% of the campus population, are extending data science into specific domains that cover virtually all disciplinary areas of the campus. Read more.