Research Interests:

Prof. David R. Pugh is the director of SDAIA-KAUST Center of Excellence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

His experienced research software engineer and data scientist who loves to teach. he just finished developing training materials to help data scientists get started managing their virtual environments with Conda and Docker. Currently developing data engineering solutions to accelerate distributed training of deep neural networks on HPC resources. He have a deep knowledge of the core data science Python stack: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, NetworkX, Jupyter, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow.