Dr. Viral B. Shah is one of the creators of the Julia programming language and co-founder and CEO of JuliaHub. In 2019, Dr. Shah received the prestigious James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. He is also one of the authors of Circuitscape, an open-source program that borrows algorithms from electronic circuit theory for ecological conservation. He received his PhD in the field of high performance computing at University of California, Santa Barbara.
