About us

This is a community effort, and as such many people have contributed to it over the years.

History

This project was started in 2007 as a Google Summer of Code project by David Cournapeau. Later that year, Matthieu Brucher started work on this project as part of his thesis.

In 2010 Fabian Pedregosa, Gael Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort and Vincent Michel took leadership of the project and made the first public release, February the 1st 2010. Since then, several releases have appeard following a ~3 month cycle.

People

• David Cournapeau, 2007-2009
• Fred Mailhot, 2008, Artificial Neural Networks (ann) module.
• David Cooke
• David Huard
• Dave Morrill
• Ed Schofield
• Eric Jones, 2008, Genetic Algorithms (ga) module. No longer part of scikits.learn.
• Jarrod Millman
• Matthieu Brucher contributed the manifold module. It is not currently part of the scikit, althouth it is planned to be newly included in the upcoming 0.7 release.
• Travis Oliphant
• Pearu Peterson
• Fabian Pedregosa joined the project in January 2010 and is the current maintainer.
• Gael Varoquaux
• Jake VanderPlas contributed the BallTree module in February 2010.
• Alexandre Gramfort
• Olivier Grisel
• Bertrand Thirion, contributed the hierarchical clustering module together with Gael Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort and Vincent Michel.
• Vincent Michel.
• Chris Filo Gorgolewski
• Angel Soler Gollonet contributed the official logo and web page layout.
• Yaroslav Halchenko is the maintainer for Debian OS and has contributed several fixes.
• Ron Weiss joined the project in July 2010 and contributed both the mixture and hmm module.
• Virgile Fritsch. Bug fixes.
• Mathieu Blondel joined the project in September 2010 and has worked since on the sparse matrix support, Ridge generalized crossval, text feature extraction and general bug fixes.
• Peter Prettenhofer joined the project in October 2010 and contributed the Stochastic Gradient Descent module as well as several examples and fixes.
• Vincent Dubourg joined the project in November 2010 and contributed the Gaussian Processes module.
• Alexandre Passos joined the project in November 2010 contributed the fast SVD variant.
• Vlad Niculae joined the project in March 2011 and contributed the non-negative matrix factorization module.
• Thouis (Ray) Jones joined the project in contributed the Cython bindings

for the BallTree class.

If I forgot anyone, do not hesitate to send me an email to fabian.pedregosa@inria.fr and I’ll include you in the list.

Funding

INRIA actively supports this project. It has provided funding for Fabian Pedregosa to work on this project full time in the period 2010-2012. It also hosts coding sprints and other events.

Google sponsored David Cournapeau with a Summer of Code Scolarship in the summer of 2007. If you would like to participate in the next Google Summer of code program, please see this page

The NeuroDebian project providing Debian packaging and contributions is supported by Dr. James V. Haxby (Dartmouth College).