Tijmen Blankevoort
Deep Learning Researcher at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTijmen Blankevoort is a seasoned AI leader and entrepreneur bridging research and product across startups and major tech companies. He is a Deep Learning Researcher at NVIDIA, where he focuses on numerics, quantization, efficiency and LLM training. Prior to NVIDIA, he served as Director of Engineering, Deep Learning at Qualcomm, and held senior and staff engineer roles, delivering scalable DL systems. He co-founded Scyfer, a spin-off from the University of Amsterdam, and helped scale ML solutions for large enterprises, culminating in its acquisition by Qualcomm. With a mathematics background (Leiden, Keio) and an MA in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam, he combines rigorous theory with pragmatic deployment. Based in San Francisco, he continues to push for making AI accessible and efficient through innovative compression, quantization and conditional computing.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Japanese, Mathematics, Japanese at Keio UniversityMA, Artificial Intelligence, MA, Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit van AmsterdamBSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at Universiteit Leiden
Japanese, English, Dutch
Github Skills (55)
python10
expressions10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
optimizer10
numpy10
deep-learning10
gpu10
neural-networks10
tensorflow10
autograd10
neural-network10
offloading10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TiRune/pytorch
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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