Press
External coverage and media features. Ordered most recent first.
- May 2025Meet Scott Clark, an OSU Science Alum Who Built a $30M AI Startup Oregon State University College of Science
Clark's latest venture, Distributional Inc., is focused on a fast-growing challenge in today's AI landscape: reliability. It's already raised $30 million and grown to a team of 30.
- Mar 2025Distributional: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Scott Clark About The Enterprise AI Testing Company Pulse 2.0
Our platform is designed to bridge the gap in AI testing, providing enterprise teams with the tools they need to proactively detect and address risks throughout the AI lifecycle.
- Oct 2024Distributional Raises $19M to Automate AI Model and App Testing TechCrunch
Distributional, an AI testing platform, has secured $19 million in Series A funding led by Two Sigma Ventures. The company was established by Scott Clark, who previously served as Intel's general manager of AI software.
- Dec 2023Distributional Raises $11M Seed Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Make AI Safe, Secure and Reliable BusinessWire
Distributional secured an $11M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Operator Stack, Point72 Ventures, SV Angel, Two Sigma, and 40+ angel investors.
- Nov 2022Power Consumption and AI Are Key Priorities for Dell and Intel in the Supercomputing Space SiliconANGLE / theCUBE
Coverage of the SC22 theCUBE panel with Scott Clark (then VP & GM at Intel) and David Schmidt (Dell Technologies) on Intel's oneAPI open-ecosystem strategy and the future of accelerated computing for AI.
- Dec 2020Meet a Science Grad: Scott Clark Oregon State University College of Science
Clark credits OSU's strong science faculty and innovative programs with laying the foundation for his Ph.D., which he turned into a startup.
- Oct 2020Intel to Acquire SigOpt to Scale AI Productivity and Performance Intel Corporation
By combining our AI optimization software with Intel's decades-long leadership in AI computing and machine learning performance, we will be able to unlock new capabilities for data scientists.
- Oct 2020Intel Acquires SigOpt, a Specialist in Modeling Optimization, to Boost Its AI Business TechCrunch
Intel announced an acquisition of SigOpt, a company specializing in modeling optimization technology. Co-founders Scott Clark and Patrick Hayes and their team joined Intel.
- Nov 2016Young Alumni Award Winner Makes Forbes' 30 Under 30 List Oregon State University College of Science
Scott Clark, a physics and mathematics alumnus from Oregon State University (Class of 2008), received the 2016 College of Science Young Alumni Award and was recognized among Forbes' 30 Under 30.
- Jan 2016Cornellians Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 List Cornell Chronicle
Scott Clark, who earned both a Master's degree and Ph.D. from Cornell, was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Enterprise Tech category as co-founder and CEO of SigOpt.
- Oct 2014Using MOE to Optimize an A/B Testing Experiment Framework Yelp Engineering Blog
Follow-up on applying the Metric Optimization Engine to optimize A/B testing frameworks, demonstrating practical improvements in experiment efficiency at Yelp.
- Aug 2014Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms Wall Street Journal
Academia is slow and only a few people see your work. At Yelp, I can be pushing out experiments that affect hundreds of millions of people. When I make a small change to the Yelp website, I have a bigger impact.
- Jul 2014Introducing MOE: A New Open Source Machine Learning Service for Optimal Experiment Design Yelp Engineering Blog
MOE is an open-source machine learning tool for solving black-box optimization problems using Bayesian Global Optimization algorithms and Gaussian Processes.
- Jun 2014Scott Clark Ph.D. '12 Brings His Work with ORIE Professor Frazier to Yelp and the Open Source World Cornell ORIE
As one of the first Ph.D.'s hired by Yelp, Scott Clark built a black-box optimization system, Metrics Optimization Engine (MOE), developed in collaboration with ORIE Professor Peter Frazier.
- Sep 2011DEIXIS Magazine Feature: DOE CSGF Fellow Profile DEIXIS Magazine (DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship)
Substantive profile of Scott as a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow, covering the dissertation pivot from computational fluid dynamics to metagenomics during the 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory practicum.