Boris Capitanu
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications / Illinois Informatics Institute
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Capitanu is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 13 years of experience blending research-grade computing and applied software engineering from the University of Illinois research ecosystem to production ML at ASAPP. He pairs an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA with deep experience at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, bringing strong architecture and systems thinking to large-scale, research-driven projects. Known as a quick learner and strategic thinker, he reliably turns experimental prototypes into extensible, production-ready systems—evident from his earlier redesign of educational software into a modular, Python-scriptable framework. Comfortable leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, he thrives under pressure and bridges technical and interpersonal gaps to accelerate delivery. Based in Champaign, IL, he combines academic rigor with practical product sensibility, often spotting integration opportunities others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of BusinessUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Romanian, French
Github Skills (200)
arabic-nlp10
lda10
command-line-tool10
acs10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
corenlp10
sbt-plugin10
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
openid-connect10
package-manager10
keycloak10
named-entity-recognition10
data-mining10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
htrc/HTRC-EF-RsyncGenerator
Aug 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 8 months
htrc/HTRC-FeatureExtractor
Aug 2016 - May 2024
Extracts features (token counts, POS tags, etc.) from a list of HT volumes, to aid in non-consumptive research.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 7 years 10 months
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