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Jeff Bezanson
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<p>Jeff Bezanson (born December 26, 1981) is an American computer scientist best known for co-creating the <a href="/facts/Julia_(programming_language)/AoB0PJ9C">Julia</a> programming language with <a href="/facts/Stefan_Karpinski/mqmnN35w">Stefan Karpinski</a>, <a href="/facts/Alan_Edelman/YMYDACSo">Alan Edelman</a> and <a href="/facts/Viral_B._Shah/NGsaycjv">Viral B. Shah</a> in 2012. The language spawned Julia Computing Inc. (since then renamed to JuliaHub Inc.) of which Bezanson is the CTO. As a founder of the company and co-creator of the language, Bezanson earned the 2019 <a href="/facts/J._H._Wilkinson_Prize_for_Numerical_Software/5pQ82QP5">J.H. Wilkinson Prize</a> for his work on the Julia programming language alongside Shah and Karpinski. Bezanson is also listed as an author on academic papers regarding the Julia language. </p>