Andy R. Terrel, PhD

You'll find me at conferences, in library issue trackers, on the NumFOCUS board, and building businesses

Open Source Advocate

Since 2006

Software is a social activity

Board member, NumFOCUS
SymPy, FEniCS, and PETSc contributor
Dask, conda, Bokeh, numba, DyND, and PyData contributor
SciPy chair; Google Summer of Code mentor

Scholar

PhD, Computer Science

How can automate the path from an equation to fast code.

PhD, University of Chicago — finite element methods
Research at UT Austin's ICES and TACC
Papers on GPU finite elements and code generation — see the vita

Entrepreneur

CTO · Product Lead

Apparel sizing, real estate, manufacturing, publishing — find the model inside

CUDA Python Product Lead, NVIDIA
Executive roles at StoryFit, Xometry, REX, Boldmetrics, and Anaconda
Advisor to StoryFit, Saturn Cloud, KindHealth, and OneBrief

Blog

NumPy SciPy Benchmarks

Sun 07 July 2013 by Andy R. Terrel, PhD

At PyCon2013, a group of about 30 developers got together to discuss NumPy and SciPy. The room mostly included folks that use NumPy and SciPy extensively, such as myself, a few who were just learning, and several core contributors (if not currently in the past), such as Eric Jones, Travis …

SciPy2013 Recap

Fri 05 July 2013 by Andy R. Terrel, PhD

It's been a week since the end of SciPy2013, where I was co-chair, and I'm just now catching my breath. It was an amazing event with so many innovative and forward looking trends that I won't be able to give them enough credence, ever. When I took on the role …

Participate at SciPy2013

Wed 24 April 2013 by Andy R. Terrel, PhD

The early registration deadline is rapidly approaching for SciPy2013, and all our decisions on speakers are out. This year was really tough as we had more submission than ever at a quality that exceeded all my expectations. If you submitted something and haven't heard from us, let me know.

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