{"id":285,"date":"2016-11-22T07:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=285"},"modified":"2016-11-22T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:30:56","slug":"scott-clark-b-s-2008-wins-cos-young-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/11\/22\/scott-clark-b-s-2008-wins-cos-young-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Clark (B.S. 2008) wins CoS Young Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/11\/Scott_Clark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-286\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2016\/11\/Scott_Clark-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"scott_clark\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Scott_Clark-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Scott_Clark-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2016\/11\/Scott_Clark.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Dr. Scott Clark who is the 2016 recipient of the\u00a0 College of Science&#8217;s Young Alumni Award.\u00a0 Scott is co-founder and CEO of SigOpt in San Francisco, a startup company for tuning complex systems and machine learning models.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a 4th-generation Beaver and earned 3 B.S. degrees (in Physics, Computational Physics and Mathematics,) from Oregon State University in 2008! He did research with Prof. Rubin Landau (Physics) and Prof. Malgo Peszynska (Math) while at OSU.\u00a0 He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and his M.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and then spent 2 years at Yelp developing black-box Bayesian global optimization techniques.\u00a0 He subsequently founded SigOpt with his business partners and has raised millions of dollars in start-up funds.\u00a0 (https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sc932)<\/p>\n<p>We were delighted to host Scott in the department and the college, where he talked with current students and visited his old stomping grounds! On Friday evening, November 18th, Scott accepted his award at a banquet in the Memorial Union.\u00a0 He was accompanied by family members, including his wife, Dr. June Andrews, who also has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell and is a\u00a0 data scientist at Pinterest.<\/p>\n<p>Scott said that what he liked best about OSU was the encouragement to pursue whatever he wanted and the excellent problem-solving and analytical skills he developed in our physics program!\u00a0 Thanks Scott, and congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Scott Clark who is the 2016 recipient of the\u00a0 College of Science&#8217;s Young Alumni Award.\u00a0 Scott is co-founder and CEO of SigOpt in San Francisco, a startup company for tuning complex systems and machine learning models.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a 4th-generation Beaver and earned 3 B.S. degrees (in Physics, Computational Physics and Mathematics,) from&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2016\/11\/22\/scott-clark-b-s-2008-wins-cos-young-alumni-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500,2027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}