Carson Lam
Machine Learning Research Scientist at SmarterDx
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarson Lam is a machine learning research scientist and former practicing ophthalmologist with a decade of experience applying deep learning to healthcare and language models. He has led ML teams and shipped clinical prediction and conversational agent systems, and more recently focused on interpretability, reasoning, and trust for medical AI. Equally at home in research and production, his work spans RLHF, generative AI ops, and large-scale model training. Trained in medicine, neuroscience, and bioinformatics at Northwestern and Stanford, he combines clinical insight with rigorous engineering to bridge bedside problems and model development. Colleagues describe him as an empathetic communicator who can translate complex technical ideas into actionable clinical and product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biomedical Engineering, BS Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern UniversityMaster of Science Bioinformatics, Master of Science Bioinformatics at Stanford University
Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
llama10
inference10
tpu10
amd10
llm10
language-modeling10
cuda10
gpt10
transformer-architecture10
reinforcement-learning9
xpu9
mlops9
llmops9
nlp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clam004/unsupervised-speech-representation-learning
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
clam004/k8s-fast
Aug 2022 - May 2023
kubernetes-fastapi
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 32 pushes in 9 months
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