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Alexandre Gramfort

Co-creator of scikit-learn and initial creator of MNE-Python; Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs

Alexandre Gramfort is a Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs. Gramfort was previously a research director at Inria, leading the MIND team (formerly Parietal), and before that an assistant professor at Telecom Paris. Gramfort is a co-creator and long-standing core developer of scikit-learn: the project's history credits Fabian Pedregosa, Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort and Vincent Michel with taking leadership of it at INRIA in 2010 and making the first public release. Gramfort is also the initial creator and a core developer of MNE-Python, an open-source package for processing EEG and MEG data.123

Work

  • scikit-learn (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Co-creator and long-standing core developer; co-author of the 2011 JMLR paper "Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python", and listed in the active Maintainers Team on the project's About page.1324

  • MNE-Python (external site: mne.tools)Open-source code

    Initial creator and core developer of MNE-Python; Gramfort's homepage notes stepping down as the project's BDFL in 2023.15

Earlier roles

  • Research director (DR, HdR), leading the MIND team (formerly Parietal), Inria1

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    Alexandre Gramfort — homepage (external site: alexandre.gramfort.net)

    Alexandre Gramfort · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python (JMLR 12, 2011) (external site: jmlr.org)

    Journal of Machine Learning Research · Paper · published 2011 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    scikit-learn/scikit-learn COPYING (BSD 3-Clause License) (external site: github.com)

    scikit-learn (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    mne-tools/mne-python LICENSE.txt (BSD-style) (external site: github.com)

    mne-tools (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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