2020-07-29 –, BoF
For the past few years JuliaCon has hosted yearly discussions on how to improve diversity and inclusion in the Julia community as well as conducted a survey on how users and developers in the community identify. Many excellent ideas emerged from these sessions, including creating accessible material and targeted outreach and recruitment. In this session we will review our diversity goals, then form affinity groups to accomplish those goals using inspiration from previous brainstorming sessions.
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Huda Nassar is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University specializing in computational immunology. Her work is currently focused on early disease prediction and specifically building low-rank models for these problems. She is an enthusiastic Julia user and has built the MatrixNetworks.jl package which is a graph algorithms package that treats graphs as matrices and utilizes linear algebra concepts to solve many standard graph problems.
Genomics Data Scientist at Brown University, Providence, RI.