Viral B. Shah
Indian computer scientist
Viral B Shah (Hindi: वीरल बी. शाह) is an Indian computer scientist, best known for being a co-creator of the Julia programming language.2
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About
He was also actively involved in the initial design of the Aadhaar project in India which provides a 12-digit unique identity number to each Indian resident based on their biometric and demographic data. Based on his experiences implementing Aadhaar and other complex technology projects in government, he co-authored the book Rebooting India with Nandan Nilekani.
Shah is currently the CEO of JuliaHub (former company name Julia Computing), which he co-founded as Julia Computing with Julia co-creators, Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski as well as Keno Fischer and Deepak Vinchhi. In July 2021, Julia Computing raised $24 Million in Series A round led by Dorilton Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, and HighSage Ventures.
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Early life and education
- 2007University of California, Santa Barbara Doctor of Philosophy; computational science3
Career
Occupation: computer scientist.7
Known for: Julia.8
Personal life
- BornMumbai9
Awards
- 2019J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for Julia10
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- 1WikidataViral B. Shah on Wikidata
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- 11Wikimedia CommonsViral B. Shah photo by YPavan, CC BY-SA 4.0