[Z.B. Celik](http://www.linkedin.com/in/berkaycelik) is an NSF post-doctoral fellow at UW working

jointly between the Computer Science department's [Database Research Group](http://db.cs.washington.edu/) and

the Astronomy department's [Survey Science Group](http://ssg.astro.washington.edu/). He received his PhD in

Astronomy from the University of Washington in 2012. He is active in the open-source Scientific Python

community, and actively contributes to and helps maintain several of the core packages in the SciPy ecosystem.