Christopher Shallue
Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Shallue is a Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind with nine years of experience applying machine learning to real-world scientific and product problems. He led the development of a deep neural network that discovered the first exoplanet found by ML and helped integrate models into NASA's TESS pipeline, contributing to 400+ planet discoveries. His work spans research and production: publishing on optimization and data parallelism at Google Brain, mentoring junior researchers, and shipping high-impact ML systems that generated multimillion-dollar gains in ad targeting. An active open-source contributor, he helped open-source and refactor the influential tensorflow/models im2txt image-to-text codebase, fixing evaluation and Bazel-related bugs. Trained as an astronomer with a PhD from Harvard and a mathematics background from Monash, he combines rigorous scientific thinking with pragmatic engineering to move models from idea to deployed systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics at Monash University
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Github Skills (10)
tensorflow10
python10
data-processing9
machine-learning9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
bazel7
deep-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/models
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Models and examples built with TensorFlow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 67 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the image-to-text model, open-sourcing it based on the "Show and Tell" paper. They fixed bugs related to shell script paths built with Bazel. Further contributions involved refactoring the im2txt code, including fixing a bug in the evaluation script where the Saver was created before the optimizer and updating deprecated functions. The user also made improvements to data processing and file handling within the im2txt project.
deep-learningtensorflow
cshallue/cshallue.github.io
Dec 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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