Scott Clark, Ph.D. - bios
Source: https://talariasci.com/press (updated 2026-09-14)

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CEO, Distributional

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Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of Distributional, building Talaria Scientific.

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Scott Clark is the co-founder and CEO of Distributional, building Talaria Scientific, a multi-agent harness for computational science research.

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Scott Clark is the co-founder and CEO of Distributional, building Talaria Scientific, a multi-agent harness for computational science research. He was previously co-founder and CEO of SigOpt, a VC-backed Bayesian optimization startup acquired by Intel in 2020, where he then served as VP and GM of AI and HPC supercomputing through 2023. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics and an MS in computer science from Cornell University, where he was a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow.

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Scott Clark is the co-founder and CEO of Distributional, building Talaria Scientific, a multi-agent harness for computational science research that turns a 10x researcher into a 100x researcher, with the scientist in the loop and HPC as the guardrail. He previously co-founded and led SigOpt, a Bayesian optimization company acquired by Intel in 2020, and then served as Intel's VP and GM of AI and HPC Supercomputing. At Yelp he co-created MOE, the first production open-source Bayesian optimization engine. Scott holds a PhD in applied mathematics and an MS in computer science from Cornell University, where he was a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, and three bachelor's degrees, in mathematics, physics, and computational physics, from Oregon State University. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in enterprise technology in 2016 and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.