
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 renamed to JuliaHub Inc.) of which Bezanson is the CTO. As a founder of the company and co-creator of the language, Bezanson earned the 2019
J.H. Wilkinson Prize for his work on the Julia programming language
alongside Shah and Karpinski. Bezanson is also listed as an author on academic papers regarding the Julia language.
Education
After receiving his undergraduate degree from
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 2004, Bezanson moved on to graduate studies and researched in the field of technical computing at
MIT and received his PhD in 2015; his thesis is titled ''Abstraction in Technical Computing'' (2015).
Awards
In 2019, Dr. Bezanson was awarded the
J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software with
Stefan Karpinski and
Viral B. Shah for their work on the
Julia (programming language) programming language.
See also
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Julia programming language
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Stefan Karpinski
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Alan Edelman
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Viral B. Shah
References
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American computer scientists
Living people
Wikipedia Student Program
1981 births
Harvard College alumni