The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently announced the year of Open Science Recognition Challenge winners, including Project Jupyter, an open-source computing platform co-founded by Associate Professor Fernando Pérez. Project Jupyter is a non-profit, open-source project that evolved from the IPython Project in 2014 to support interactive data science and scientific computing across all programming languages. 

Pérez serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, where his research focuses on creating tools for modern computational research and data science across domain disciplines, emphasizing high-level languages, interactive and literate computing, and reproducible research. Pérez also serves as Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). Through tools like IPython and Project Jupyter, Pérez builds foundational blocks that enable scientists to tackle all stages of computational research (from exploration through publication) with a coherent approach, thus improving scientific productivity, collaboration, and reproducibility. A native of Medellín, Colombia, he earned his BSc in Physics from the University of Antioquia and a PhD in particle physics from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Statistics staff member Ryan Lovett '99 is a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor (JDC). Lovett serves as Director of Computing, overseeing the Statistical Computing Facility (SCF).

-Alex Coughlin