David Cournapeau

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David Cournapeau
Education Télécom Paris (MSc), Kyoto University (PhD in Speech recognition)
Known for scikit-learn package
Scientific career
Fields Data science
Institutions Mercari, Inc.

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]

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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 having worked for Silveregg, a SaaS Japanese company delivering recommendation systems for Japanese online retailers, [3] he worked for 6 years at Enthought, a scientific consulting company. He joined Cogent Labs, a Japanese Deep Learning/AI company, in 2017. [4] He is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Mercari, Inc. [5]

Cournapeau has also been involved in the development of other central numerical Python libraries: NumPy and SciPy. [6] [7]

References

  1. ↑ "David Cournapeau - Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  2. ↑ 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. arXiv: 1201.0490 . Bibcode:2011JMLR...12.2825P.
  3. 1 2 "Developers team: Enthought Scientific Computing Solutions". www.enthought.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  4. ↑ "Research team: Cogent Labs". www.cogent.co.jp. 9 August 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  5. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cournapeau-david-76782410/.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ Charles R Harris; K. Jarrod Millman; Stéfan J. van der Walt; et al. (16 September 2020). "Array programming with NumPy" (PDF). Nature . 585 (7825): 357–362. arXiv: 2006.10256 . doi:10.1038/S41586-020-2649-2. ISSN   1476-4687. PMC   7759461 . PMID   32939066. Wikidata   Q99413970.
  7. ↑ Pauli Virtanen; Ralf Gommers; Travis E. Oliphant; et al. (23 July 2019). "SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python" (PDF). Nature Methods . 17 (3): 261–272. arXiv: 1907.10121 . doi:10.1038/S41592-019-0686-2. ISSN   1548-7091. PMC   7056644 . PMID   32015543. Wikidata   Q84573952. (erratum)
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