// ASTG Python Course Instructors

Jules Kouatchou

Dr. Jules Kouatchou has more than 18 years’ experience implementing atmospheric models on high performance computers. He has developed Python tools for running independent tasks on distributed systems, for pre- & post-processing large volume of data, for visualizing data and for carrying out regression tests. In recent years, Dr. Kouatchou has initiated an informal project which goal is to compare the performance of languages such as Python, Julia, Matlab, IDL, R, Java, Scala, C & Fortran. He has been teaching (to NASA employees) Python related courses over the past 10 years.

Bruce Van Aartsen

Bruce Van Aartsen has over 30 years experience in weather applications development, including model visualization for the Air Force Meteorological Models office, and wrapping legacy Fortran code in an object-oriented C++ framework for the Army Research Laboratory. Over the past 12 years, he developed Java/HTML code to maintain and upgrade NASA’s Modeling Guru website. He has recently authored various utilities in Python to enhance the abilities of the NU-WRF model, including the NU-WRF Ensemble Validation System.

Carlos Cruz

Dr. Carlos Cruz is the lead software engineer of the NU-WRF model. His interests include climate dynamics, numerical modeling of physical systems and machine learning.