👨‍💻   President & Head of AI @ Replit

🔬   Former Head of Applied Research @ Google X & Google Labs (working on LLMs for Code Generation)

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

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

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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 LLMs and AI for Code (including PaLM and PaLM 2)
  • Designed the Google AI4Code Kaggle challenge
• 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, and Crowdsourcing.
• 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

👨‍🏫   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 expanded the course in several areas
    • largest course offered by the CS department at EPFL, by now grown to 600+ students