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Life and career

Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has BSc in Physics from University of Antioquia and a PhD in particle physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD.¹³ He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.¹⁴ Previously, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory¹⁵ and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS).¹⁶¹⁷ Pérez was named Faculty Director at BIDS stating July 2024.¹⁸¹⁹

Pérez began working on IPython as a side project in 2001, and is a co-founder of Project Jupyter, which evolved from IPython in 2014.²⁰²¹²² He received a 2023 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for his leadership of Project Jupyter.²³

External links

Media related to Fernando Pérez (software developer) at Wikimedia Commons

References

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2. Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code by Helen Shen. Nature 515, 151–152 (November 2014) doi:10.1038/515151a http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261 ↩

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6. UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Receive $6 Million for Open Source Project by Leila Meyer. Campus Technology, July 2015. http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/07/09/uc-berkeley-cal-poly-receive-6-million-for-open-source-project.aspx ↩

7. 2012 Free Software Award winners announced by Libby Reinish. Free Software Foundation, March 2013. https://www.fsf.org/news/2012-free-software-award-winners-announced ↩

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17. Project Jupyter gets $6M to expand collaborative data-science software by Sarah Yang. UC Berkeley News, July 07 2015 https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/07/jupyter-project/ ↩

18. "Pérez named Faculty Director at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science". https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/perez-named-faculty-director-berkeley-institute-data-science ↩

19. "Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director". https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-institute-data-science-appoints-fernando-p%C3%A9rez-next-faculty-director ↩

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