David Cournapeau
David Cournapeau is a data scientist. He is the original author of the scikit-learn package, an open source machine learning library in the Python programming language.[1][2]
He is a self-described "deployment/packaging geek", a fact about which he feels "sorry."[citation needed]
Early life and education
Cournapeau graduated with a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Telecom Paristech, Paris in 2004, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Kyoto University, Japan, in the domain of speech recognition.[3]
Career
The scikit-learn project started as scikits.learn, a Google Summer of Code project by David Cournapeau. After working for a Japanese company in sysrec, he worked for 6 years at Enthought, a scientific consulting company. He joined Cogent Labs, a Japanese Deep Learning/AI company, in 2017.[4]
References
- ^ "David Cournapeau - Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ^ Fabian Pedregosa; Gaël Varoquaux; Alexandre Gramfort; Vincent Michel; Bertrand Thirion; Olivier Grisel; Mathieu Blondel; Peter Prettenhofer; Ron Weiss; Vincent Dubourg; Jake Vanderplas; Alexandre Passos; David Cournapeau (2011). "Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python". Journal of Machine Learning Research. 12: 2825–2830.
- ^ "Developers team: Enthought Scientific Computing Solutions". www.enthought.com. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
- ^ "Research team: Cogent Labs". www.cogent.co.jp. Retrieved 20 March 2018.