# About: TauOpt

> Who builds TauOpt: Talaria Scientific, a product line of Distributional, and its founder Scott Clark.

TauOpt is built by [Talaria Scientific](https://talariasci.com), the computational-science product line of [Distributional](https://distributional.com). Talaria Scientific makes Talaria, a multi-agent harness for computational science research, and TauOpt, the Bayesian optimization engine. TauOpt runs on its own, in-process or against the hosted service.

[Scott Clark](https://scottclark.io) is the co-founder and CEO of [Distributional](https://distributional.com), building [Talaria Scientific](https://talariasci.com), a multi-agent harness for computational science research. He was previously co-founder and CEO of [SigOpt](https://sigopt.org), a YC-and-a16z-backed Bayesian optimization platform acquired by Intel in 2020, where he then served as VP & 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.

## Links

- Scott Clark: [scottclark.io](https://scottclark.io)
- Talaria Scientific: [talariasci.com](https://talariasci.com)
- Documentation: [tauopt.com/docs](https://tauopt.com/docs/)

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