David Weiss
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Weiss is a Senior Staff Research Scientist in New York with 14 years of experience translating cutting-edge machine learning research into production at scale across Google and Waymo. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Machine Learning from UPenn and a CS BA from Princeton—with hands-on leadership in natural language understanding, recommender systems, neuroscience-inspired models, and robotics. Known for bridging theory and systems, he has led teams that operationalize complex ML technologies for real-world safety- and performance-critical applications. Beyond product-facing ML, his background includes early roles in computational neuroscience and haptics, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to perception and control.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Machine Learning, Ph.D, Machine Learning at University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (5)
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
natural-language-processing7
nlp6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
djweiss/matlab-utils
Nov 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 10 months
djweiss/scalpel
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:22 commits in 4 days
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