Chris is the Executive Director of 2i2c. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley, and a Community Architect with the Division of Data Science at Berkeley. He is also a team member of Project Jupyter (particularly the JupyterHub and Binder teams), with a focus on how infrastructure can support interactive computing workflows in research and education. He’s interested in the boundary between technology, open-source software, and research and education workflows, as well as how open communities can support and extend these workflows in a way that makes science more impactful and inclusive. His background is in cognitive and computational neuroscience, where he used predictive models to understand the auditory system in the human brain.

Highlights:

• 10+ years leading and building open source projects, open infrastructure teams and services
• Jupyter Distinguished Contributor
• Co-led JupyterHub, Binder, and Jupyter Book
• Co-created the DataHub interactive computing service for the Data Science Education Program at UC Berkeley.