Fernando Pérez (software developer)

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. He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics. Previously, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). Pérez was named Faculty Director at BIDS stating July 2024.

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. He received a 2023 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for his leadership of Project Jupyter.

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