David Heineman
Predoctoral Young Investigator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Heineman is a predoctoral young investigator with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP research and software engineering, currently based at AI2 and affiliated as a pre-doc with AllenAI. He blends academic rigor from Georgia Tech with production-focused internships at AWS and machine learning experience at Patientco, shipping models and services that bridge research prototypes and scalable systems. David has moved between startup incubation—Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First—and research roles, signaling both entrepreneurial instincts and deep technical curiosity. His work emphasizes applied NLP and ML engineering, and he maintains a public-facing resume and projects at davidheineman.com, demonstrating a commitment to clear communication and reproducible work.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
bit8
8-bit6
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
evaluation-framework5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
pruning4
cuda4
quantization4
gpu3
llm2
mixture-of-experts2
expressions2
equation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidheineman/thresh
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
🌾 Universal, customizable and deployable fine-grained evaluation for text generation.
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 186 pushes in 3 months
annotation-toolevaluation-frameworknatural-language-processingnlpthresh
davidheineman/davidheineman.com
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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