Jeff Bezanson

Jeffrey Werner "Jeff" Bezanson is an American computer scientist known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language. He is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He received a B.A. in computer science from Harvard in 2004, and PhD from MIT in 2015. He founded the consulting company Julia Computing with his fellow Julia creators: his doctoral advisor Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral Shah. Bezanson is one of the four main authors of core academic papers on Julia. He speaks annually at the Julia developers conference (JuliaCon). He spoke at SciPy 2013 with Karpinski on "Julia and Python: a dynamic duo for scientific computing".