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
- Fred Mailhot
- David Cooke
- David Huard
- Dave Morrill
- Ed Schofield
- Eric Jones
- Jarrod Millman
- Matthieu Brucher
- Travis Oliphant
- Pearu Peterson
- Fabian Pedregosa (maintainer)
- Gael Varoquaux
- Jake VanderPlas
- Alexandre Gramfort
- Olivier Grisel
- Bertrand Thirion
- Vincent Michel
- Chris Filo Gorgolewski
- Angel Soler Gollonet
- Yaroslav Halchenko
- Ron Weiss
- Virgile Fritsch
- Mathieu Blondel
- Peter Prettenhofer
- Vincent Dubourg
- Alexandre Passos
- Vlad Niculae
- Edouard Duchesnay
- Thouis (Ray) Jones
- Lars Buitinck
- Paolo Losi
- Nelle Varoquaux
- Brian Holt
- Robert Layton
- Gilles Louppe
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 and Vlad Niculae in 2011. 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).