The following authors have created the source code of «CatBoost» published and distributed by YANDEX LLC as the owner:

Chief researcher, author of the algorithm and of the first implementation:
Andrey Gulin gulin@yandex-team.ru

Team:
Anna Veronika Dorogush annaveronika@
Stanislav Kirillov kizill@
Victor Omelyanenko
Evgueni Petrov Evgueni-Petrov-aka-espetrov@
Andrey Mishenko druxa@
Pavel Kalinin pv-k@
Vyacheslav Alipov alipov@yandex-team.ru
Egor Samosvat sameg@yandex-team.ru
Alexander Kobotov cobat@yandex-team.ru
Dmitry Schelchkov
Vasily Ershov noxoomo@

GPU implementation:
Vasily Ershov noxoomo@

Python-package:
Dmitry Donskov Donskov7@
Andrey Saitgalin asaitgalin@
Roman Nefyodov

R-package:
Vyacheslav Murashkin a4tunado
Roman Nefyodov
Anastasia Bezzubtseva nstbezz@
Alexey Gorchakov algorc@

Visualisation:
Ivan Karev
Sergey Berezhnoy
Roman Rybalchenko

Tutorials:
Valeriy Babushkin VENHEADs@
Mikhail Pershin pershinmr@
Emil Kayumov emilkayumov@
Evgeny Eltyshev

CoreML support:
Alexander Baranov