Daniel Campos
Chief Executive Officer at Zipf AI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Campos is a CEO and former research scientist with 11 years of experience building and scaling ML-driven search, retrieval, and NLP systems across academia and industry. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC and combines deep research in IR/IE/NLP with product and engineering rigor developed at Microsoft, Snowflake, Neeva, and Neural Magic. His work includes practical advances such as CAPOT and KALE for efficient retrieval and embedding alignment, shipping hundreds of models for CPU-friendly inference, and building enterprise-grade unstructured data tooling. Comfortable moving between code, metrics, and go-to-market strategy, he has delivered systems that cut costs and latency while improving accuracy at scale. A former PM who turned researcher-founder, he pairs an architect’s eye for aesthetics and design with a rigorous, experimental approach to model efficiency. Based in New York, he’s equally at home prototyping novel algorithms and leading teams to productionize them.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (116)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
record-linkage10
datasets10
representations10
pruning10
deep-learning10
speech10
pandas10
onnx10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
transformer10
transfer-learning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spacemanidol/CurriculumLearningForLanguageModels
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
spacemanidol/Image2Smiles
Jan 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:107 commits, 96 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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