JuliaSim: Building a Product Which Improves Open Source Sustainability
January 16, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
How do you prevent a “tragedy of the commons” and develop an ecosystem where maintainers of an open source project can thrive while continuing to support the community? In this talk, we will discuss JuliaSim, a product built by the developers from the Julia SciML open source organization in close collaboration with the Julia core compiler developers.
We will discuss how this product’s scope is defined to include the open source elements, how certain extensions to the open source are productized, but also how the release of much of the code as open has influenced and improved its business model.This discussion will highlight the complementary aspects of open source with startups
and serve as a discussion point as to the pros and cons of how open source can be anchored by non-academic communities.
About the Speaker
Dr. Chris Rackauckas is the VP of Modeling and Simulation at JuliaHub, the Director of Scientific Research at Pumas-AI, Co-PI of the Julia Lab at MIT, and the lead developer of the SciML Open Source Software Organization. He is a recipient of the US Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator Scientific Excellence Award for his work in mechanistic machine learning. Chris is also the lead developer of the Pumas project and has received a top presentation award at every ACoP in the last 3 years for improving methods for uncertainty quantification, automated GPU acceleration of nonlinear mixed effects modeling (NLME), and machine learning assisted construction of NLME models with DeepNLME. For all these achievements, Chris received the Emerging Scientist award from ISoP. For more about Chris and his work, visit: https://chrisrackauckas.com
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