Gaël Varoquaux

Gaël Varoquaux is a research director working on AI and data science at Inria (French computer science national research) where he leads the Soda team. He is also co-founder and chief science officer of Probabl.

Varoquaux's research covers fundamentals of artificial intelligence, statistical learning, natural language processing, causal inference, as well as applications to health, with a current focus on public health and epidemiology. He also creates technology: he co-founded scikit-learn, one of the reference machine-learning toolboxes, and helped build various central tools for data analysis in Python.

Varoquaux has worked at UC Berkeley, McGill, and the University of Florence. He did a PhD in quantum physics supervised by Alain Aspect and is a graduate from École Normale Supérieure, Paris.