Hi all,

On behalf of the Scipy developers I'd like to welcome Nikolay Mayorov as member of the core dev team.

Nikolay started contributing as a GSoC student last year, then he added optimize.lsq_linear/least_squares. Since then he's made many other contributions, for example: optimize.solve_bvp, interpolate.CubicSpline and a nearest neighbor chain algorithm to speed up cluster.linkage. See https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pulls/nmayorov

Keep them coming Nikolay!

Cheers,
Ralf

@other-newer-core-devs: if you're wondering if we all agreed on offering Nikolay commit rights, that happened already half a year ago via email (it just took a while before the acceptance came in:)).