David Cournapeau is a

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. He is the original author of the

scikit-learn scikit-learn (formerly scikits.learn and also known as sklearn) is a free software machine learning library for the Python programming language. It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support-vector m ...

package, an

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machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

library in the

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programming language.

Early life and education

Cournapeau graduated with a MSc in Electrical Engineering from

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, Paris in 2004, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science at

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = National university, Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff ...

, Japan, in the domain of speech recognition.

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, he worked for 6 years at

Enthought Enthought, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, United States that develops scientific and analytic computing solutions using primarily the Python programming language. It is best known for the early development and maintenance of t ...

, a scientific consulting company. He joined Cogent Labs, a Japanese Deep Learning/AI company, in 2017. He is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Mercari, Inc. Cournapeau has also been involved in the development of other central numerical Python libraries: NumPy and

SciPy SciPy (pronounced "sigh pie") is a free and open-source Python library used for scientific computing and technical computing. SciPy contains modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, special functions, FFT, signal ...

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