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Ralf Gommers Quansight has announced that Ralf Gommers has taken a position as the new director of Quansight Labs as of April 1. Gommers most recently served as a data scientist at FPInnovations, and previously worked for Scion, ASML and Philips Research. “I have long been impressed with Ralf’s community-minded spirit and willingness to serve the SciPy, NumPy, and PyData communities even while working full-time at another job,” wrote Travis Oliphant, CEO of Quansight. “I’m thrilled that Quansight can support him directly in devoting his full-time job to helping the NumPy ecosystem directly.”

Source: datanami.com
Author: Oliver Peckham