Daniel Lemire is a computer science professor at the Data Science Laboratory of the University of Quebec (TELUQ). He is ranked in the top 2% of all scientists (Stanford University/Elsevier ranking, 2024). He is among the 1000 most followed programmers in the world on GitHub; GitHub has over 100 million developers. He published over 85 peer-reviewed research papers. His work is found in many standard libraries (.NET, Rust, GCC/glibc++, LLVM/libc, Go, Node.js, etc.) and in the major Web browsers (Safari, Chrome, etc.). He is an editor at the journal Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley, established in 1971). In 2020, he received the University of Quebec’s 2020 Award of Excellence for Achievement in Research for his work on the acceleration of JSON parsing. His research interests include high-performance programming.