Stefan Karpinski

Stefan Karpinski is an American computer scientist known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language.^[1][2][3][4] He is an alumnus of Harvard and works at Julia Computing, which he co-founded with Julia co-creators, Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Viral B. Shah as well as Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi.^[5][6][7]

He received a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard in 2000,^[8] and has completed much of the work on a PhD in computer science from UCSB with research on modeling local area network traffic. He is one of the four main authors of core academic papers on Julia.^[9][10] He speaks regularly on Julia at industry events on scientific computing, programming languages, and data science.^{[7][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]}

In 2006, Karpinski participated in the Subway Challenge,^[19] holding for some time the Guinness World Record for the fastest transit stopping at all New York City Subway stations.