Travis Oliphant | |
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53)[1] |
Nationality | American |
Education | PhD in Engineering, B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering |
Alma mater | Brigham Young University |
Occupation(s) | Businessman, data scientist |
Known for | Artificial Intelligence, Open-source software, NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda (Python distribution), Probabilistic programming |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Optimal Inversion of the Interior Helmholtz Problem |
Travis Oliphant is an American computer scientist and businessman. He’s widely regarded as a leading authority in software engineering and programming, contributing to foundational open-source software tools for data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Travis is credited to have driven the proliferation of Python (programming language) and is the creator of NumPy, SciPy, Numba and Anaconda (Python distribution).[2]
He is a co-founder and advisory board member [3] of NumFOCUS, 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States.[4] Travis is also founder and CEO of Quansight Labs and OpenTeams.
Oliphant has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Mayo Clinic and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University.[1][5]
Oliphant was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University from 2001 to 2007. In addition, he directed the BYU Biomedical Imaging Lab, and performed research on scanning impedance imaging.[6]
Oliphant served as President of Enthought from 2007 until 2011. He founded Continuum Analytics in January 2012 (subsequently renamed to Anaconda Inc. in 2017[7]). He was also the CEO from 2012 to 2017. Continuum makes the Python distribution Anaconda.[8] In July 2015 Continuum Analytics received 24 million dollars in Series A Funding.[9] Continuum Analytics received a $100,000 award from DARPA for the feasibility of designing a high-level data-parallel language extension to Python on graphics processing units (GPUs).[10] On April 1, 2017, Oliphant announced he was leaving Anaconda Inc. and stepping down from the CEO position[11] He subsequently co-founded Quansight later that same year.[12][13]
He is also a member of the advisory council of the non-profit scientific computing foundation NumFOCUS.[14]
Oliphant is the author of the textbook Guide To NumPy and associated manuals.[2]
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