Data Science, Nuclear Engineering and the Open Source (with Katy Huff)
Data science, nuclear engineering, the importance of interdisciplinary data science and the open source.
About Katy Huff
Katy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois where she leads the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles research group. She is additionally a Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in both the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Through leadership within Software Carpentry, SciPy, the Hacker Within, and the Journal of Open Source Software she also advocates for best practices in open, reproducible scientific computing.
Links from the show
FROM THE INTERVIEW
- Katy's website
- The advanced reactors and fuel cycles group at the University of Illinois, which Katy leads
- Effective Computation in Physics, a manual for starting up or honing your programming and software skills even though your background is in the physical sciences or engineering.
- Software Carpentry
- Katy's PyCon 2017 keynote
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Original music and sounds by The Sticks.
