Career Profile
Hi! My name is Maxi, I am a Senior Research Engineer at the AI Systems & Architectures team at Microsoft. I completed a PhD program at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on optimizing large-scale deep learning methods for machine translation and language models. With a strong expertise in natural language processing, I am keenly interested in inference optimization and data mining.
Education
Programme Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism
Supervisors Kenneth Heafield, Roman Grundkiewicz
Thesis Structural Pruning for Speed of Neural Machine Translation
Viva Slides
Passed viva with no corrections.
Programme Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism
Supervisors Kenneth Heafield, Rico Sennrich
Thesis Improving Neural Machine Translation Training via Weighted Objectives
Graduated with distinction.
Specialization Information and Internet Technologies
Thesis Computer vision and machine learning for automatic extraction of death notices
- Average grade: 4.63/5
- Thesis grade: 5/5 Viva grade: 5/5
- Graduation ranking: 4/103 (top 5%)
Scholarships Rector’s Scholarship for Best Students 2014-2017
Experiences
AI Systems and Architectures team in Systems Planning and Architectures group.
Heterogenous Systems Technologies team in Software and Advanced Technology group.
- Leading cross-corporative efforts optimizing AI models for Intel’s CPUs.
- Benchmarking and investigating inefficiencies in AI workloads deployed with oneDNN.
- Prototyping an inference-focused AI accelerator.
Working on efficient machine translation shared tasks and pruning solutions.
Part time teaching vacancies.
- Introductory Applied Machine Learning
- Machine Learning Practical
- Machine Learning Base — providing inplace support for students doing various ML courses.
Assigned to Machine Translation team.
Project TraMOOC – Translation for Massive Open Online Courses
Collaborating Universities HU Berlin, DCU, IURC, Radboud University, Tilburg University
The collaborative project aiming at providing reliable machine translation for online courses.
Branch: Artificial Intelligence, Group Natural Language Processing, Team Dialog Translation
Assigned to Machine Translation sub-team.