Dave Kleinschmidt
Like many before and after him, Dave started hacking on Julia to procrastinate finishing his dissertation. Despite his best efforts he finished his PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 2016. In his day job as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers New Brunswick, he works on understanding how people understand spoken language with such apparent ease, combining behavioral, computational, and neural approaches. Otherwise he's committed to promoting open, reproducible science, and designing tools that empower researchers and lower the barrier to entry for data analysis and statistics.
Sessions
What happens when you re-implement a critical piece of the data science
ecosystem from what was essentially an R clone to take full advantage of the
Julia language? You learn a lot about flexibility, composability, and
performance.