Dr. James A. Bednar is a Senior Technical Consultant at Anaconda, Inc. He received multiple nominations for teaching awards over his 10-year career of lecturing at the University of Edinburgh (UK), and has published more than 50 scientific papers. He manages the open-source packages in the PyViz project, including Datashader, Param, ImaGen, and Colorcet.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar/