Travis Oliphant

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Travis Oliphant
Born1971 (age 52–53)[1]
Salt Lake City, Utah[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD in Engineering, B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering
Alma materBrigham Young University
Occupation(s)Businessman, data scientist
Known forArtificial 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.

Early life and education[edit]

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]

Career[edit]

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]

Books written[edit]

Oliphant is the author of the textbook Guide To NumPy and associated manuals.[2]

Articles[edit]

  • Travis E. Oliphant (2007). "Python for Scientific Computing". Computing in Science & Engineering. 9 (3): 10–20. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2007.58. ISSN 1521-9615. Wikidata Q62058750.
  • Pauli Virtanen; Ralf Gommers; Travis E. Oliphant; et al. (3 February 2020). "SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python" (PDF). Nature Methods. 17 (3): 261–272. doi:10.1038/S41592-019-0686-2. ISSN 1548-7091. PMC 7056644. PMID 32015543. Wikidata Q84573952. {{cite journal}}: |author35= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) (erratum)
  • 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.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Liu, Hongze; Hawkins, Aaron R.; Schultz, Stephen M.; Oliphant, Travis E. (February 15, 2008). "Fast Nonlinear Image Reconstruction for Scanning Impedance Imaging". IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 55 (3): 970–977. doi:10.1109/TBME.2007.905485. PMID 18334388. S2CID 39843759.
  2. ^ a b Oliphant, Travis (2015). Guide to NumPy (2 ed.). CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1517300074.
  3. ^ "NumFOCUS History". NumFOCUS. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. ^ "People: The NumFOCUS Team - NumFOCUS". NumFOCUS. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Travis Oliphant". The Org. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Travis E. Oliphant - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  7. ^ Collison, Scott (2017-06-28). "Continuum Analytics Officially Becomes Anaconda". Anaconda Inc. corporate website. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Download Anaconda now!". Continuum. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  9. ^ "Continuum Analytics Secures $24 Million Series A Round to Empower Next Phase of Data Science - Business Wire" (Press release). 23 July 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  10. ^ "Data-Parallel Analytics on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)". SBIR. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  11. ^ Oliphant, Travis [@teoliphant] (January 1, 2018). "My 2018 news is that I am leaving full time employment by Anaconda as of today. I will be working on improving OSS sustainability through non-profit work, and starting a new services/product incubation company to help organizations make better use of OSS and AI/ML. More to come" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2021 – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Meet Our Team". Quansight corprorate website. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Quansight". LinkedIn. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  14. ^ "NumFocus advisory council". NumFocus. Retrieved 10 January 2016.

External links[edit]

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