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Eric Jones - Keynote Speaker
+ Eric has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads + Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, + Eric worked with numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the + Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses + on the use of Python for scientific computing and serves as a member of the Python + Software Foundation. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in electrical + engineering and a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from Baylor University. + Eric was the Keynote Speaker at SciPy US 2011. +
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Emmanuelle Gouillart
+ Emmanuelle Gouillart is a physics researcher in a joint laboratory + between the French National Research Center (CNRS), and the French + industry group Saint-Gobain. Her research interests are in glass melting, + tomography imaging, and fluid mixing. She started teaching Scientific + Python during the Python African Tour event in Dakar in 2009, and was one + of the organizers of the Euroscipy conferences in Paris in 2010 and 2011. + Emmanuelle is now one of the developers of the Python module + scikits-image. +
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Ajith Kumar
+ His main area of work is development of instrumentation for particle + accelerators and associated experiments, including radio-frequency + accelerating structures, control and data acquisition systems, + digital and radio frequency electronics modules. Also involved in + developing laboratory equipment (expeyes.in) for teaching physics and + engineering following the philosophy of Free Software. Has been a user + and propagator of Free Software in the field of education for several years. +
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Jarrod Millman
+ He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active + contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects. He is the acting + managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's + Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in + Python (NIPY) project. +
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Ole Nielsen
+ Ole Nielsen has been an Open Source adopter, promotor and + developer since the early nineties during his career as technical + consultant, academic researcher, government scientist and development + professional within an aid organisation. Ole has a double Master's degree in + Mathematics and Computer Science as well as a PhD in scientific computing + from universities in Denmark. Ole joined AusAID in Jakarta in 2010 to support + the Indonesian government in multi-hazard disaster risk reduction. +
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Mateusz Paprocki
+ Mateusz Paprocki is a software developer and a researcher in the field + of computer science. He graduated last spring from Technical University + of Wroclaw in Poland. Mateusz is an active Open Source Python scientific + software developer. His major contribution to the community is his work on + SymPy, a pure Python symbolic mathematics system. +
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Asokan Pichai
+ Mr. Asokan Pichai is the consultant/project manager for the Python + group of the FOSSEE project. He is also the principal consultant at + TalentSprint. He has immense experience in the field of training + and instructional design. He has been a director at CIBS and has been + the CEO/CTO of various firms such as MinVesta Infotech Ltd., Arkin + Systems and Future Focus Infotech. +
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Prabhu Ramachandran
+ Dr Prabhu has been a faculty member at the department of Aerospace Engineering, + IIT Bombay since 2005. He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras. + His research interests are primarily in particle methods and applied scientific + computing. He has been active in the FOSS community for more than a decade. + He co-founded the Indian Linux User Group - Chennai (ILUGC) in 1998 and is the + creator and lead developer of the (FOSS-India-award-winning) Mayavi and TVTK + Python packages. Prabhu has contributed to the Python wrappers of the + Visualization Toolkit (VTK). He is an active member of the SciPy community and + a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). In 2009, he gave the keynote + address at India's first PyCon. Prabhu currently heads the FOSSEE project + (http://fossee.in) which aims to spread the use of Python (and other Free + Software) in the curriculum. +
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