Team

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

Contributor Biographies

Karl Glazebrook

 **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.

Craig DeForest

 **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.

Tim Jenness

 **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.

Doug Hunt

 **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.

Robert Schwebel

 **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 2013-Oct-12, with the release of PDL-2.007, this produced:

  1411 Chris Marshall
   526 Craig DeForest
   350 Douglas Burke
   213 Christian Soeller
   208 David Mertens
   176 Sisyphus
   151 Henning Glawe
   139 Derek Lamb
    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 Andres Jordan
    33 Karl Glazebrook
    23 Dima Kogan
    15 data.collection
    11 Robin Williams
     9 Diab Jerius
     7 Edward Baudrez
     6 Joel Berger
     6 Dov Grobgeld
     4 olpc user
     3 Tim Haines
     3 Marc Lehmann
     3 Bill Coffman
     2 unknown
     2 cosmic operator
     2 Xavier Calbet
     2 Tim Pickering
     2 Matthew Kenworthy
     2 C.Soeller
     1 run4flat
     1 rschwebel
     1 djerius@cfa.harvard.edu
     1 dhunt
     1 William Parker
     1 Tuomas J. Lukka
     1 Shlomi Fish
     1 Rob
     1 Josh Narins