⚠️ WARNING ⚠️
This site is an archive of my former website that used to live at fperez.org. I lost that site in 2022 due to a failure by my domain provider to notify me of its expiration, against ICANN regulations (name.com, I don't recommend them!). The built HTML files are here, and the underlying Sphinx sources here.
My official website now lives at fernandoperez.org.
Welcome¶
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley, and a Faculty Scientist at the Data Science and Technology Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as a researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS, an Institute where I am a founding co-investigator). My research interests, shaped over years of working on a number of applied problems in physics, mathematics and neuroscience, revolve around the question of building tools for computational research across all scientific domains.
I am convinced that we need better tools for scientific computing, and that our efforts to build them based on the Python language can make a significant difference to how scientific research is conducted and disseminated. I created the IPython project while a graduate student in 2001, which has now evolved into the large and collaborative `Project Jupyter`_, where a talented team does all the hard work. I am an active member of the community that creates freely available scientific computing tools around the SciPy stack, I regularly lecture about scientific computing in Python and I am a founding board member of the NumFOCUS foundation. The Py4Science page contains more details on this.
You can contact me via email or Twitter.
Note
As should be obvious from the dates below, this site is sadly in a horrible sate of maintenance and badly outdated at this point in time.
News¶
- March 2013
- I was awarded the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software for the creation of IPython and my contributions to the Open Source Scientific Python ecosystem. UC Berkeley also put out a more detailed release.
- March 2011
- I’ve finally gathered the slides for our minisymposium on Python for Scientific computing at the SIAM CSE 2011 conference (blog post and pictures).
- March 2011
- The Sage Days 29 workshop was a success on multiple fronts, and in particular for IPython we made a ton of progress.
Contact¶
Fernando Perez
- fernando.perez@berkeley.edu (primary)
- Office
- Evans Hall 419Phone: (510) 642-9968Fax : (510) 642-7892
- Post
- Statistics Department367 Evans HallUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720