Speaker: Dr. Viral Shah
Co-Founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a Co-Creator of the Julia language
Dr. Viral B. Shah is a Co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a co-creator of the Julia language. The Julia user base is now over 200,000 users. Viral has a Ph.D. in computational sciences from UC Santa Barbara, where his thesis was on interactive supercomputing. The technology developed in his thesis was licensed commercially by Microsoft. He also worked on the National ID project of the Government of India, and authored a book his experiences implementing a complex technology project in governance - Rebooting India.