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👨‍💻   VP of AI at Replit (building the future of software development with AI)

🔬   Former Head of Applied Research @ Google Labs (working on AI applied to Source Code, Large Language Models)

👨‍🏫   Former Research Scientist and Instructor in AI @ Stanford University

🧐   Expertise: Large Language Models, AI for Code, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science

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🎓   Education

• Postdoc in Machine Learning at Stanford University
  • Advised by Prof. Jure Leskovec
  • Affiliated with SNAP and Statistical Machine Learning Group
• PhD in Computer Science at EPFL

👨‍💻   Experience

• Head of Applied Research at Google X & Google Labs
  • Worked on Large Language Models and AI for Code (including PaLM and PaLM 2)
• Research Scientist at Stanford University and at EPFL
  • Contributed to several projects (funded by IARPA, DARPA, Samsung, Google, Amazon, ...) with research on Deep Learning (GNNs, Transformers, Open Graph Benchmark, etc.), Recommender Systems, Crowdsourcing, and Data Science.
• Intern at MIT Media Lab (w/ Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland), Yahoo Research (w/ Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates), and Google.
• Co-founder of Sindice.com, the largest Semantic Web Search Engine (back in the days). The core technologies developed for Sindice evolved into:
  • a top-level Apache project, Any23
  • several contributions to Hadoop, Lucene and Solr
  • Siren, an investigative intelligence platform which secured $15M+ in funding -- kudos to my amazing ex-colleagues 👍

👨‍🏫   Teaching

• At Stanford University:
  • CS224W: Machine Learning with Graphs -- Co-instructor together with Prof. Jure Leskovec
  • CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets -- Co-instructor together with Prof. Jure Leskovec
  • CS329S: Machine Learning Systems Design -- Advisor
  • CS341: Project in Mining Massive Data Sets -- Instructor
• At EPFL:
  • Applied Data Analysis -- Created and taught the first edition of the course
    • ADA is now taught by my friend and research collaborator Prof. Robert West (head of the Data Science Lab), who masterfully improved the course in several areas
    • largest course offered by the CS department at EPFL, recently grown to 600+ students -- kudos to Bob 👍