Dr. Edward Schofield (Python Charmers) bio
Dr Edward Schofield is a well-known contributor in the NumPy and SciPy communities. He was the release manager for five releases of SciPy in 2005-6 and the author of the maximum entropy and parts of the sparse matrix module. He has 20 years of experience in programming, teaching, and public speaking, including 10 years of experience with Python. Ed holds a PhD in computer science from Imperial College London and an MA in maths and statistics from Cambridge University. He is a director of Python Charmers, a company that provides specialist Python training to scientists and engineers in the Asia-Pacific region. He also consults to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.