Brian Mak
Senior Systems Researcher at Together AI
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Mak is a Senior Systems Researcher based in Berkeley with a decade of experience at the intersection of ML systems and research, currently working on efficient large language model architectures and scaling laws. As a PhD student in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz and researcher in NLP and information retrieval, he blends rigorous academic methods with hands-on systems engineering from roles at Berkeley Lab and Together AI. His work on the residual-matrix-transformer highlights a focus on mechanistic interpretability and practical architectural improvements for LLMs. Comfortable moving between simulation, data analysis, and kernel-level systems, he brings a physics-trained analytical mindset to ML systems challenges. Quietly, his trajectory shows a pattern of contributing to both cutting-edge research and production-oriented tooling that accelerates model scaling and understanding.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Natural Language Processing, Master's degree Natural Language Processing at UC Santa Cruz Natural Language Processing Master's ProgramBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eggroll-bot/programmers-calculator
Jul 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
eggroll-bot/alcohol-mod
Dec 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 7 months
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