David Cournapeau Explained

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]}

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: David Cournapeau - Google Scholar. scholar.google.co.in. 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. Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 2011. 12. 2825–2830. 1201.0490. 2011JMLR...12.2825P.
3. Web site: Developers team: Enthought Scientific Computing Solutions. www.enthought.com. 2016-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20160311184716/https://www.enthought.com/company/team/devs/. 2016-03-11.
4. Web site: Research team: Cogent Labs. www.cogent.co.jp. 9 August 2018 . 2019-01-18.
5. Web site: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cournapeau-david-76782410/.