Bio
Scott Clark is the co-founder, former CEO, and current general manager of SigOpt, acquired by Intel in November 2020. Scott leads SigOpt’s ongoing efforts to build a product and vision of an Intelligent Experimentation platform that accelerates and amplifies the impact of modelers everywhere.
Scott has been applying optimal learning techniques in industry and academia for years in areas that include bioinformatics and production advertising systems. Before co-founding SigOpt, he worked on the Ad Targeting team at Yelp, where he led the charge on academic research and outreach with projects like the Yelp Dataset Challenge and open-source Metric Optimization Engine (MOE).
Scott holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Cornell University. He also holds BS degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Physics from Oregon State University. He was recognized as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in 2016.