Gael Varoquaux
- Tagline:
- Coding for science and innovation that matters
- Website:
- http://gael-varoquaux.info/
- Twitter:
- GaelVaroquaux
- Location:
- Paris
- Company:
- Inria
- Job title:
- Senior Researcher
- Company website:
- http://www.inria.fr/
- Biography:
Gaël Varoquaux is an Inria faculty researcher working on data science and brain imaging. He is also a historical contributor to the scientific Python and pydata ecosystems. His academic research focuses on using data and machine learning for scientific inference, applying it to brain-imaging data to understand cognition, as well as developing tools that make it easier for non-specialists to use machine learning. Years before the NSA, he was hoping to make bleeding-edge data processing available across new fields, and he has been working on a mastermind plan building easy-to-use open-source software in Python. He is one of the core developers and originators of scikit-learn, joblib, Mayavi and nilearn, a nominated member of the PSF, and often teaches scientific computing with Python using the scipy lecture notes.
