Cleve Barry Moler (born August 17, 1939) is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis.

He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran.

[3] Before joining MathWorks full-time in 1989, he also worked for Intel Hypercube, where he coined the term "embarrassingly parallel", and Ardent Computer Corporation.

[4] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering on February 14, 1997, for conceiving and developing widely used mathematical software.

In 2009, he was recognized by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics as a SIAM Fellow [6] for his outstanding contributions to numerical analysis and software, including the invention of MATLAB.