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{{short description|Colombian-American physicist and software developer}}

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| name = Fernando Pérez

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| caption = PerezPérez in 2012

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| birth_place = [[Medellín, Colombia]]

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| nationality = [[Colombia]]n

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| education = Physics

| alma_mater = [[University of Antioquia]] (BSc) [[University of Colorado Boulder]] (PhD)

| occupation = [[AssistantAssociate Professor]]

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| employer = [[University of California, Berkeley]]

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| known_for = [[IPython]] and [[Project Jupyter]] programming environments

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| website = {{url|http://fperez.org/}}

| awards = [[Free Software Award]], [[ACM Software System Award]]

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'''Fernando Pérez''' is a [[Colombians|Colombian]] physicist, software developer, and [[free software]] advocate. He is best known as the creator of the [[IPython]] programming environment, which is inspired by [[Notebook interface|Wolfram Notebooks]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/|title=The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete|last=Somers|first=James|date=2018-04-05|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2019-02-26|issn=1072-7825}}</ref><ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="Nature 2014b"/><ref name="infoworld interview"/><ref name="i programmer"/><ref name="moore foundation announcement"/><ref name="campus tech"/> for which he received the 2012 [[Free Software Award]] from the [[Free Software Foundation]] and for his work on [[Project Jupyter]] for which he received the 2017 [[ACM Software System Award]].<ref name="FSF"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="heise FSF"/> He is a fellow of the [[Python Software Foundation]],<ref name="PSF fellows"/> and a founding member of the [[NumFOCUS]] organization.<ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="NumFOCUS members"/>

== Life and career ==

Fernando Pérez was born in [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]], and has BSc in Physics from [[University of Antioquia]] and a PhD in [[Particleparticle Physicsphysics]] from [[University of Colorado Boulder]], where he worked on numerical simulations in [[Lattice QCD]].<ref name="LBL new hires"/> He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an assistantassociate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.<ref name="Berkeley_Statistics"/>. Previously, he was a staff scientist at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]<ref name="LBL new hires"/> and associate researcher at the [[Berkeley Institute for Data Science|Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)]].<ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="UCB Jupyter"/> Pérez was named Faculty Director at BIDS stating July 2024.<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director"/><ref name="BIDS_faculty_director_2"/>

Pérez began working on [[IPython]] as a side project in 2001, and is a co-founder of [[Project Jupyter]], which evolved from IPython in 2014.<ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="IPython history"/> He received a 2023 [[NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal]] for his leadership of Project Jupyter.<ref name="NASA award"/>

==References==

{{reflistReflist|refs=

<ref name="Berkeley_Statistics">[{{Cite web|url=https://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty|title=Faculty Berkeley&#124; Department of Statistics: Faculty]|website=statistics.berkeley.edu}}</ref>

<ref name="BIDS_people">[http{{Cite web|url=https://bids.berkeley.edu/people/fernando-perezp%C3%A9rez|title=Fernando Pérez|website=Berkeley Institute for Data Science: People]}}</ref>

<ref name="UCB FSF">[http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/wresting-new-tricks-python-fernando-perez-wins-2012-award-advancement-free-software Wresting New Tricks From a Python: Fernando Perez Wins 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software] by Wallace Ravven, Berkeley Research News, April 2013</ref>

<ref name="FSF">[https://www.fsf.org/news/2012-free-software-award-winners-announced 2012 Free Software Award winners announced] by Libby Reinish. Free Software Foundation, March 2013.</ref>

<ref name="IPython history">[{{Cite web|url=https://ipython.orgreadthedocs.io/ipython-docen/3stable/about/history.html|title=History — IPython History]documentation|website=ipython.org}}</ref>

<ref name="NASA award">{{Cite web|url=https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/fernando-p%C3%A9rez-honored-nasa-exceptional-public-service-award|title=Fernando Pérez honored by NASA with the Exceptional Public Service Award}}</ref>

<ref name="moore foundation announcement">[https://www.moore.org/newsroom/press-releases/2015/07/07/$6m-for-uc-berkeley-and-cal-poly-to-expand-and-enhance-open-source-software-for-scientific-computing-and-data-science $6M for UC Berkeley and Cal Poly to expand and enhance open-source software for scientific computing and data science]. Moore Foundation Press Release, July 2015.</ref>

<ref name="PSF fellows">[{{Cite web|url=https://www.python.org/psf/members/#fellows|title=PSF PythonMembership Software Foundation Fellows]Roster|website=Python.org|access-date=2015-07-14|archive-date=2020-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423184647/https://www.python.org/psf/members/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name="NumFOCUS members">[http{{Cite web|url=https://numfocus.org/foundation/history.htmlcommunity|title=Get NumFOCUSInvolved memberwith list]the NumFOCUS Community|website=NumFOCUS}}</ref>

<ref name="campus tech">[http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/07/09/uc-berkeley-cal-poly-receive-6-million-for-open-source-project.aspx UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Receive $6 Million for Open Source Project] by Leila Meyer. Campus Technology, July 2015.</ref>

<ref name="UCB Jupyter">[https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/07/07/jupyter-project/ Project Jupyter gets $6M to expand collaborative data-science software] by Sarah Yang. UC Berkeley News, July 07 2015</ref>

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<ref name="i programmer">[http://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/6461-ipython-sponsored-by-microsoft.html IPython Sponsored By Microsoft] by Alex Armstrong. I Programmer, October 2013</ref>

<ref name="heise FSF">[http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Free-Software-Awards-fuer-IPython-und-OpenMRS-1829598.html Free Software Awards für IPython und OpenMRS]. heise Open Source, March 2013</ref>

<ref name="LBL new hires">[http{{Cite web|url=https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2015/new-employee-profiles-jan-2015/|title=New LBLEmployee new hiresProfiles: JanuaryJan 2015]|website=cs.lbl.gov}}</ref>

<ref name="Nature 2014a">[https://web.archive.org/web/20170720121512/http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7493-523a Research Tools: Jump Off the Page] by Amanda Mascarelli.

Nature 507, 523-525 (March 2014) doi:10.1038/nj7493-523a</ref>

<ref name="Nature 2014b">[http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261 Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code] by Helen Shen. Nature 515, 151–152 (November 2014) doi:10.1038/515151a</ref>}}

<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director">{{Cite web|url=https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/perez-named-faculty-director-berkeley-institute-data-science|title=Pérez named Faculty Director at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science}}</ref>

<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director_2">{{Cite web|url=https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-institute-data-science-appoints-fernando-p%C3%A9rez-next-faculty-director|title=Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director}}</ref>

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