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]

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]

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]

Oliphant is the author of the textbook Guide To NumPy and associated manuals.^[4]

• 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. arXiv:1907.10121. doi:10.1038/S41592-019-0686-2. ISSN 1548-7091. PMC 7056644. PMID 32015543. Wikidata Q84573952. (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.

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