[SciPy-Dev] Welcome Nicholas McKibben to the SciPy core team!

[Warren Weckesser]

On 1/3/21, Matt Haberland <mhaberla at calpoly.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On behalf of the SciPy developers, I'd like to welcome Nicholas McKibben as
> a member of the core team. Nicholas has been contributing for just over a
> year, and although he only has a few PRs (
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pulls/mckib2), one of those was very big:
> gh-12043 (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/12043) wrapped the HiGHS C++
> linear programming library, dramatically improving SciPy's linear
> programming capabilities. In addition to code reviews and bug fixes, he
> currently has several major enhancement projects in the works: wrappers for
> PROPACK, statistical distributions from Boost, and an interface to the
> HiGHS mixed-integer programming solver.
>
> Given all of his great work in such an unusual year, I'm really looking
> forward to seeing what he does in 2021!
>
> Happy New Year, everyone!
> Matt
>


Thanks for the all great work, Nicholas!

Warren