Viral Shah

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Viral Shah is an Indian technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-creator of the Julia programming language and a key architect of India’s Aadhaar digital identity system.

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instanceOf computer scientist
entrepreneur
person
software engineer
technologist
awardReceived J.H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software NERFINISHED
awardReceivedFor Julia programming language NERFINISHED
coAuthorOf Julia language design
“Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations” NERFINISHED
coAuthorWith Nandan Nilekani NERFINISHED
coCreatorOf Julia programming language NERFINISHED
coCreatorOfWith Alan Edelman NERFINISHED
Jeff Bezanson NERFINISHED
Stefan Karpinski NERFINISHED
coDesignerOf Julia programming language NERFINISHED
coFounderOf Julia Computing NERFINISHED
coFounderWith Alan Edelman NERFINISHED
Jeff Bezanson NERFINISHED
Stefan Karpinski NERFINISHED
countryOfWork India NERFINISHED
United States of America
degree PhD in Computer Science
doctoralAdvisor John R. Gilbert NERFINISHED
educatedAt University of California, Santa Barbara NERFINISHED
employer Julia Computing NERFINISHED
Nandan Nilekani’s UIDAI advisory team
fieldOfWork digital identity systems
high-performance computing
programming languages
public policy technology
technical computing
knownFor Aadhaar digital identity system NERFINISHED
Julia programming language NERFINISHED
languageSpoken English
Gujarati NERFINISHED
Hindi
nationality Indian
notableProject design and implementation of Julia’s multiple dispatch system
design of Julia’s type system
notableWork Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations NERFINISHED
position Chief Executive Officer of Julia Computing
researchInterest graph algorithms
parallel computing
sparse matrix algorithms
roleInProject key architect of Aadhaar technology
workedOn Aadhaar project NERFINISHED

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Nandan Nilekani coAuthor Viral Shah