David Cournapeau

David Cournapeau is a french data scientist. He is the original author of the scikit-learn package, an open source machine learning library in the Python programming language.

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.

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 was a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Mercari, Inc. until 2023 . Since 2023 he is an engineering manager in applied science at Amazon .

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