Stefan Karpinski is an American computer scientist known for being a co-creator of the

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programming language. He is an alumnus of

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and works at Julia Computing, which he co-founded with Julia co-creators,

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Jeff Bezanson Jeff Bezanson (born December 26, 1981) is a computer scientist best known for co-creating the Julia programming language with Stefan Karpinski, Alan Edelman and Viral B. Shah in 2012. The language spawned Julia Computing Inc. (since then rena ...

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as well as Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi. He received a B.A. in mathematics from

in 2000, and has completed much of the work on a PhD in computer science from

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with research on modeling

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traffic. He is one of the four main authors of core academic papers on Julia. He speaks regularly on Julia at industry events on scientific computing, programming languages, and data science. In 2006, Karpinski participated in the Subway Challenge, holding for some time the Guinness World Record for the fastest transit stopping at all

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stations.

Awards

In 2019, Stefan Karpinski was awarded the

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with

and

for their work on the

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