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This page contains some information about the PDL team. Current team members are encouraged to update their biographies if necessary.

Contributor Biographies

Day job

Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. I use PDL for day to day analysis of astrophysical data, images and spectra.

PDL work:

Initial creator of PDL

Christian Soeller

Day job

Member of staff in the Dept. of Physiology, Univ. of Auckland - main interests biophysics and biomedical imaging (confocal/multiphoton)

PDL work

Various bits of PDL; occasional Core and PP hacking

Tuomas J. Lukka

Day job

Computer Science Researcher, University of Jyväskylä

PDL work

PP, TriD, etc. Much of the slightly strange but useful stuff in 2.0. Known for missing self-imposed deadlines on releases.

Day job

I am a solar astrophysicist at Southwest Research Institute. I use PDL for image processing, computer vision, and magnetohydrodynamic modeling.

PDL work

Module development & debugging, general hackery.

Day job

Software engineer and Support Astronomer at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

PDL work

Author of PDL::Options, PDL::IO::NDF and miscellaneous other things. My main contribution seems to be cajoling people into doing things like the FITS reader or bad pixel masking :-)

John Cerney

Day job

I develop data-analysis and visualization tools for RF/Microwave test data.

PDL work

PDL Pumpking (Incorporation of patches, generating official releases, etc) since 1998.

Day job

Software engineer for the COSMIC project (using GPS receivers in low earth orbit for weather and climate measurement). Use perl whenever permitted by law.

PDL work

Author of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Char. Helping with PP optimization of late.

Day job

I'm a hard- and software engineer working for Zeutec Optoelektronik, a small german company making spectroscopy components for chemical applications. In private I'm an active amateur astronomer, mainly interested in observation of planets. For more information about what I'm doing please have a look at my private homepage.

PDL work

I'm no longer maintaining the web pages for PDL, but respond to email questions. As I'm more a PDL user than a hardcore developer;-) my team activities consist mostly of writing bug reports and enjoying the quick response time of the real developers.

Daniel Carrera

Day job

I am a web developer for a a company in the education sector. Starting September 2010 I will start a masters in astrophysics at Lund University.

PDL work

I have been working on beginner documentation and the PDL website.

All Contributors

The list of contributors can be found by querying the git repository and filtering the output using some command-line tools. See a description of the git rev-list options. The following command returns the contributor list sorted by number of commits. Note that this does not include the many contributions made by Karl Glazebrook, Christian Soeller, and Tuomas J. Lukka, et al. before the PDL project operated under source control:

git rev-list --all --pretty=format:"%aN" |grep -v commit |sort -f |uniq -ciw8 |sort -nr;

As of 2022-Jul-18, after the release of PDL-2.080, this produced:

   2279 Ed J
   1615 Chris Marshall
    576 Craig DeForest
    350 Douglas Burke
    300 Derek Lamb
    213 Christian Soeller
    204 Sisyphus
    196 Zakariyya Mughal
    194 David Mertens
    153 Henning Glawe
     71 Jarle Brinchmann
     60 Tim Jenness
     56 Jim Edwards
     51 John Cerney
     50 Doug Hunt
     48 Daniel Carrera
     42 Rafael Laboissiere
     42 Judd Taylor
     36 Dima Kogan
     36 Andres Jordan
     34 Karl Glazebrook
     31 mohawk2
     28 kmx
     22 Diab Jerius
     15 data.collection
     12 Bas Couwenberg
     11 Robin Williams
      8 Zaki Mughal [sivoais]
      7 Luis Mochan
      6 Dov Grobgeld
      4 shawnlaffan
      4 olpc user
      4 Tim Haines
      4 Joel Berger
      3 Marc Lehmann
      3 Ingo Schmid
      3 Bill Coffman
      2 unknown
      2 cosmic operator
      2 Xavier Calbet
      2 William Parker
      2 Tim Pickering
      2 Shawn Laffan
      2 Reiner Herrmann
      2 Petr Písař
      2 Matthew Kenworthy
      2 C.Soeller
      1 run4flat
      1 rschwebel
      1 [email protected]
      1 dhunt
      1 Vikas N Kumar
      1 Tuomas J. Lukka
      1 Thomas Klausner
      1 Simon Reinhardt
      1 Shlomi Fish
      1 Rob
      1 Pierre Masci
      1 Matt Newville
      1 Josh Narins
      1 Jitka Plesníková
      1 Jerry Leibold
      1 Igor Vlasenko
      1 Father Chrysostomos
      1 Bryan Jurish
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