Alexandru Meterez
PhD Candidate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandru Meterez is a Harvard CS PhD candidate specializing in deep learning theory and optimization, with nine years of engineering and research experience across academia and industry. He has held research internships at Max Planck and IBM, contributed to teaching at ETH Zürich and University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, and applied ML in product settings at Adobe. His engineering work includes backend contributions to big-data MapReduce exercises used in ETH Zurich coursework, demonstrating practical fluency with Hadoop and scalable data-processing pipelines. Comfortable bridging theory and implementation, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on system-building and pedagogy. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a pattern-seeking mindset to neural network optimization and large-scale computation.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityMaster's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at ETH ZürichPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (6)
javas10
hadoop-mapreduce10
mapreduce10
hadoop10
java10
big-data9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RumbleDB/bigdata-exercises
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Exercises for the Big Data lecture at ETH Zurich (Fall 2025)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru's commits focus on adding a new notebook related to MapReduce exercises. The user implements and refactors Java code for a MapReduce word count job, including considerations for using the Reducer as a Combiner. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the MapReduce programming model and the Hadoop ecosystem, involving tasks such as data loading, job execution, and result processing.
big-data
alexandrumeterez/GameloftWorkshop
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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