designed to support data-driven discovery in a wide range of scientific fields. His own research is in astronomy, astrophysics, machine learning, and scalable computation. Previously, VanderPlas was an NSF post-doctoral fellow working jointly between the Astronomy and Computer Science departments at the University of Washington. The thesis topic of his PhD (University of Washington, 2012) concerned <i>weak gravitational lensing</i>, a technique that uses small gravitational perturbations of light paths to l