Andrew Drozdov
Senior Research Scientist at Databricks Mosaic Research
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Drozdov is a Senior Research Scientist at Databricks specializing in search, retrieval-augmented generation, and optimizing compound AI systems, with a PhD in Computer Science from UMass Amherst. Over 11 years he has blended industrial and academic research—publishing at TACL, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and ICLR—and has held research internships at Google and IBM. He focuses on LLM training/inference, search algorithms, and agent enhancement, and has reviewed 100+ papers while serving as Senior Area Chair at ACL Rolling Review for information retrieval. Known as a "hacker with a research habit," he pairs deep theoretical work with practical system-building in production settings in San Francisco. Beyond papers, he led community-building efforts like UMass’s Data Science Tea and mentored MS students through industry-collaborative projects, signaling a strong commitment to research mentorship and cross-disciplinary communication.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MichiganMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York UniversityEdgemont Junior Senior High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
sentence10
toolbox10
web-application10
python10
pose10
computer-architecture10
record-linkage10
websocket10
hadoop10
datasets10
representations10
chat10
deep-learning10
gpu10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mrdrozdov/westworld-bingo
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 month
mrdrozdov-github/rabbit-holes
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 11 months
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