Summary
Adrian Iordache is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building efficient deep learning and computer vision systems for thousands of embedded devices. Currently at Grab's KartaDashCam team, he develops multi-task and distilled foundation models for map generation, real-time weather prediction, and scene understanding, optimized on distributed GPU infrastructure for Southeast Asia deployment. Pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bucharest, he combines rigorous academic research on model efficiency with hands-on production engineering. A top-performing student (Master’s 9.84/10) and active Kaggle competitor, he iterates rapidly on applied research and maintains practical engineering discipline through his GitHub projects. Notably, his work bridges cutting-edge model distillation techniques with real-world constraints of embedded hardware.
8 years of coding experience
National College "Ion C. Bratianu", Pitesti
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Universitatea din București