Chris is the Executive Director of 2i2c. He is on the Jupyter Executive Council as well as the Jupyter Foundation Board. He has been a co-lead of several projects within the Jupyter ecosystem for over ten years (particularly the JupyterHub and Binder projects, as well as the Jupyter Book project). 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 to make science more impactful and inclusive.

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. 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.