About
My name is Frédéric Wang Nélar, I am a French Computer Engineer working at Igalia and a free software enthusiast. I am a contributor to the Mozilla, WebKit and Chromium projects and have expertise in math layout (TeX, OpenType MATH and MathML).
I also hold a master degree in pure mathematics from the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Nowadays, I continue practicing mathematics as a hobby although I occasionally use them to solve practical problems in my engineering work.
I also have several activities in my free time, such as playing football and classical piano, learning French Sign Language and doing academic support for children of disadvantaged families.
Master’s theses
- The Hidden Subgroup Problem, July 2010. Aarhus Universitet.
- Spécialisation des groupes quantiques à une racine de l’unité et représentations de dimension finie, May 2013. Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Talks
- MathML Core in WebKit, WebKit Contributor Meeting, October 2025.
- Shipping MathML in Chrome 109, BlinkOn 17, November 2022.
- Shipping MathML in Chromium, Web Engines Hackfest, June 2022.
- Remainder estimate for MathML integration, BlinkOn 16, May 2022.
- MathML, onde estamos? BlinkOn 15, November 2021.
- Solving
font-familyproblems, BlinkOn 15, November 2021. - Integrating New Protocol Handlers into Chrome, BlinkOn 15, November 2021.
- MathML Core, BlinkOn 11, November 2019.
- MathML in Browsers, Web Engines Hackfest. October, 2019.
- MathML in LayoutNG, BlinkOn 10, April 2019.
- Working on the Web Platform from a Cooperative, BlinkOn 9, April 2018.