# Steven Lee will join us as a JuliaCon 2019 keynote speaker!

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**Created:** [April 6, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/steven-lee-will-join-us-as-a-juliacon-2019-keynote-speaker/22824 "2019-04-06T00:11:42Z")\
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Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that Steven Lee, Applied Mathematics Program Manager for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) within the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, will deliver a keynote address at JuliaCon 2019. Dr Lee has led projects on scientific discovery through advanced computing; frameworks, algorithms and scalable technologies for mathematics; and quantification of uncertainty for extreme-scale computations. Steven has previously been a visiting Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Visit the [JuliaCon 2019 homepage](https://juliacon.org/2019/) for more information about Dr Lee and up-to-date information on this year’s JuliaCon!

On behalf of the JuliaCon 2019 organizing committee,  
Pontus Stenetorp and Jane Herriman  
Executive Chair and Vice-Chair