Instructors

Information on your instructors for the course.

J.J. Allaire

J.J. is the founder of Posit and the creator of the RStudio IDE. J.J. is an author of several packages in the R Markdown publishing ecosystem including rmarkdown, flexdashboard, learnr, and distill, and also worked extensively on the R interfaces to Python and TensorFlow. J.J. is now leading the Quarto project, which is a new Jupyter-based scientific and technical publishing system.

J.J. is also appearing in another JupyterCon 2023 talk: Jupyter Notebooks + Quarto for customizable and reproducible documents, websites and books.

Wasim Lorgat

Wasim is a software engineer, data scientist, and core developer of nbdev. Wasimkhas held technical leadership positions in South African startups. At DataProphet, he led the development of machine learning techniques for reducing defects in manufacturing plants. And at Aerobotics, he led the team that built aerial drone computer vision systems to provide farmers with high-resolution crop data.

You can find out more about Wasim on his website.

Hamel Husain

Hamel is a core developer of nbdev and key community member of fast.ai. Hamel has built ML infrastructure and deployed data products at Airbnb, GitHub, and DataRobot. Hamel also contributes to many open-source projects related to machine learning infrastructure and developer tools.

You can find more about Hamel on his website.