David Samuel
Doctoral Student at University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolDavid Samuel is a PhD student in Language Technology at the University of Oslo with nine years of software and research experience bridging deep learning, NLP, and signal processing. He trained at Charles University in Prague (BSc, MSc AI) and has industry research experience including a music source separation project presented at ICASSP and a stint at Preferred Networks. David contributes practical ML tooling—his GitHub includes a PyTorch implementation of Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) with stability and adaptive enhancements—demonstrating attention to both theory and robust engineering. His background spans research roles and production back-end development, giving him fluency from model design to deployment. Based in Oslo, he focuses on principled optimization and audio-language problems, often tackling numerical and stability challenges that are easy to overlook.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Charles University in Prague
Github Skills (6)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
optimizer10
python10
optimizers10
sam10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davda54/sam
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
SAM: Sharpness-Aware Minimization (PyTorch)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of a Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) optimizer within the PyTorch framework. Their work involved defining the SAM class, implementing the `first_step` and `second_step` functions, and integrating it with existing PyTorch optimizers. They also provided an example using the CIFAR-10 dataset, incorporated element-wise Adaptive SAM, and addressed numerical stability issues.
pytorchminimizationsharpnessoptimizersam
davda54/tower-defense-unity
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 31 pushes in 3 months
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