# Scott Clark

> Co-founder and CEO of Distributional, building Talaria Scientific: a multi-agent harness for computational science research. Previously co-founder & CEO of SigOpt (acquired by Intel 2020); VP & GM of AI and HPC supercomputing at Intel through 2023. PhD Applied Mathematics, Cornell University.

This site is the canonical reference for Scott Clark's professional bio, work history, publications, talks, projects, and patents. Every page has a plain-markdown twin for direct LLM ingestion (linked below). For one-shot ingestion, see [llms-full.txt](https://scottclark.io/llms-full.txt).

## Pages

- [Home](https://scottclark.io/index.md): Short bio, three-bullet summary (researcher / founder / operator), experience, education, social links
- [CV](https://scottclark.io/cv.md): Long-form academic CV — education, executive & industry experience, research practicums, awards, advisory, focus areas, selected publications and talks
- [Talks](https://scottclark.io/talks.md): Catalog of conference talks and podcast appearances since 2013 (40+ documented)
- [Projects](https://scottclark.io/projects.md): Open-source projects and patent families (~20 granted US patents as named inventor)
- [Research](https://scottclark.io/publications.md): Peer-reviewed publications (Bayesian optimization, bioinformatics, AI/ML), 1,200+ citations, h-index 16
- [Press](https://scottclark.io/press.md): Press mentions, interviews, and articles

## Writing

Essays by Scott Clark (index: [https://scottclark.io/blog](https://scottclark.io/blog); markdown twin: [https://scottclark.io/blog.md](https://scottclark.io/blog.md)); every post has a plain-markdown twin (linked below) and ships in the full-content RSS feed at https://scottclark.io/rss.xml.

- [Making New Mistakes Faster as a Second-Time Founder](https://scottclark.io/blog/make-all-new-mistakes-faster.md): Lessons from a hard pivot: overfitting to my first company's successes, vision-market fit vs product-market fit, and making new mistakes faster.
- [Building this blog: Part II](https://scottclark.io/blog/building-this-blog-part-ii.md): How agents turned a decade-old blog backlog into a live site built for two readers: people, and the AI agents they send to read about you.

## Optional

- [Full corpus (single file)](https://scottclark.io/llms-full.txt): All page markdown concatenated
- [Two-page resume PDF](https://scottclark.io/resume/scott-clark-resume.pdf): Hiring / exec-search version
- [Long-form academic CV PDF](https://scottclark.io/resume/scott-clark-cv.pdf): Academic detail
- [Resume LaTeX source](https://github.com/sc932/resume): Including aligned markdown profile (ScottClark.md)
- [Site source](https://github.com/sc932/scottclarkio): This site's source