Stéfan van der Walt

Research Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science

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Stéfan van der Walt

Stéfan van der Walt is an assistant 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.