Travis Oliphant

Travis Oliphant
Born1971 (age 52–53)[1]
Salt Lake City, Utah[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD in Biomedical Engineering, B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering
Alma materBrigham Young University
Occupation(s)Businessman, data scientist
Known forOpen-source software, NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda (Python distribution), Probabilistic programming

Travis Oliphant is an American data scientist and businessman. He is a co-founder[2] of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States, and sits on its advisory board.[3] He is also a founder of technology startup Anaconda. In addition, Oliphant is the primary creator of NumPy and founding contributor to the SciPy packages in the Python programming language.[4]

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  2. ^ "NumFOCUS History". NumFOCUS. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  3. ^ "People: The NumFOCUS Team - NumFOCUS". NumFOCUS. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guide to NumPy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).