Alex Smola
CEO & Cofounder at Boson AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Smola is a veteran machine learning researcher and entrepreneur who has led large-scale ML efforts across academia and industry for over two decades, currently serving as CEO and cofounder of Boson AI. He built and scaled production ML at Amazon (VP/Distinguished Scientist) after a long academic career as a professor at CMU and NICTA, and has authored 200+ papers and multiple books on deep learning, kernel methods, and scalable models. His work spans applications from document analysis and bioinformatics to internet-scale systems handling terabytes of data and hundreds of millions of users. Based in Sunnyvale, he hires for deep learning and high-performance engineering roles and prefers candidates who share public code—reflecting his hands-on, research-to-product approach. An underappreciated detail: beyond leadership roles he has a consistent track record of supervising PhD researchers and shipping fast samplers and unsupervised models that bridge theory and production.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (Master's degree) Physics, Diplom (Master's degree) Physics at Technical University of MunichPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German, Italian, Spanish, French
Github Skills (46)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TFBosoN/Enviosity
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
Website for Mr. Enviosity
Contributions:394 commits, 8 PRs, 434 pushes in 1 year
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TFBosoN/genshin-impact-helper
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Automatically get Genshin Impact daily check-in rewards from HoYoLAB Community by GitHub Actions.
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 day
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