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Jorge Aranda obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Victoria, where he studies coordination and communication in software teams. |
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Dhavide Aruliah is an associate professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ontario. His research interests are in scientific computing, specifically in computational inverse problems, numerical linear algebra, and the numerical solution of PDEs. |
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Neil Chue Hong is Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and is based at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in community engagement and development, software sustainability, and the integration and analysis of data. |
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Matt Davis is a software developer at the Space Telescope Science Institute where he works on Python and C projects that support Hubble science. He also spends a bit of time spreading Python around the office. He previously worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center where he wrote Python software to support atmospheric science research. |
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Jonathan Dursi is an astrophysicist with twenty years’ experience in computational science and computational science. He has taught courses in computing from the desktop to supercomputers in Canada, the US, and South Africa. In 2000, as part of the US DoE ASC Flash team, he won a Gordon Bell Award, one of supercomputing’s highest accolades. |
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Richard “Tommy” Guy is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. While at Wake Forest University, he helped create Verbal Victor, an app to help children with communication difficulties. |
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Steven Haddock is a Research Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and adjunct Associate Professor at U.C. Santa Cruz, studying bioluminescence and biodiversity of marine zooplankton. He co-authored Practical Computing for Biologists with Casey Dunn. |
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Katy Huff is a PhD student in nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she helped found The Hacker Within. |
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Ian M. Mitchell is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, formal verification, and reproducible research. |
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Jon Pipitone completed his MSc in Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2010. He has been active since then in a variety of scientific, environmental, and social justice causes. |
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Mark Plumbley is Director of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary University of London. His research covers analysis of audio and music signals, using techniques such as information theory and sparse representations. Mark leads the EPSRC-funded project SoundSoftware.ac.uk. |
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Anthony Scopatz has a PhD in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and is now a post-doc in the Astrophysics Department’s FLASH Center at the University of Chicago. |
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Jeff Shelton is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, studying the control aspects of human motion. Following more than two decades in industry, he is interested in aligning educational methods with the evolving societal roles performed by engineers. |
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Ethan White is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Utah State University. His research focuses on quantitative macroecology, using large ecological databases, advanced statistical methods, and theoretical modeling to understand broad scale ecological patterns. |
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Greg Wilson started the Software Carpentry project in 1998. He has been a professional software developer, an author, and a university professor. Greg received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1993. |
