Stéfan van der Walt

Senior Research Data Scientist

Real name: 
Stéfan van der Walt

Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher at BIDS, where he leads the Software Working Group. He is the founder of scikit-image and co-author of Elegant SciPy.  Stéfan has been developing scientific open source software for more than a decade, focusing mainly on Python packages such as NumPy & SciPy. Outside work, he enjoys traveling, running, and the great outdoors.


Events

2016 ImageXD Workshop
XD
June 7, 2016 / 9:00am to June 9, 2016 / 6:00pm

2017 ImageXD Workshop
XD
March 27, 2017 / 9:00am to March 31, 2017 / 6:00pm

ImageXD 2019
XD
September 11, 2019 / 9:00am to September 13, 2019 / 5:30pm

2018 GraphXD Workshop
XD
March 27, 2018 / 9:00am to March 29, 2018 / 5:00pm

2018 ImageXD Workshop
XD
May 16, 2018 / 9:00am to May 18, 2018 / 5:00pm

SciPy2016 - Annual SciPy Conference
Conference
July 11, 2016 / 9:00am to July 17, 2016 / 6:00pm

BIDS Spring 2016 Data Science Faire
Conference
May 3, 2016 / 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Image Analysis Across Domains in Python with SciPy and Scikit Image
Training
July 7, 2015 / 1:30pm to 4:30pm

A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib
Lecture
July 7, 2015 / 9:00am to 9:30am

Publications

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
Journal Article
February 3, 2020

SkyPortal: An Astronomical Data Platform
Journal Article
May 12, 2019

Resistance to Adoption of Best Practices
Journal Article
March 12, 2019

Best Practices for Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science: Report from the BIDS Best Practices in Data Science Series
Journal Article
February 1, 2019

Challenges of Doing Data-Intensive Research in Teams, Labs, and Groups: Report from the BIDS Best Practices in Data Science Series
Journal Article
November 14, 2018

Semi-automated software for dorsal fin photographic identification of marine species: application to Carcharodon carcharias
Journal Article
September 1, 2018

Machine Detection of Enhanced Electromechanical Energy Conversion
Journal Article
May 28, 2018

A recurrent neural network for classification of unevenly sampled variable stars
Journal Article
November 27, 2017

Elegant SciPy: The Art of Scientific Python
Book
August 11, 2017

Analyzing microtomography data with Python and the scikit-image library
Journal Article
December 7, 2016

cesium: Open-Source Platform for Time-Series Inference
Journal Article
September 15, 2016

An integrated mark-recapture and genetic approach to estimate the population size of white sharks in South Africa
Journal Article
June 23, 2016

Inselect: Automating the Digitization of Natural History Collections
Journal Article
November 23, 2015

A fluoroscopy-based planning and guidance software tool for minimally invasive hip refixation by cement injection
Journal Article
August 11, 2015

Evaluating the accuracy of diffusion MRI models in white matter
Journal Article
April 16, 2015

scikit-image: image processing in Python
Journal Article
June 19, 2014

Dipy, a library for the analysis of diffusion MRI data
Journal Article
February 21, 2014