David Wingate
Associate Professor
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Wingate is an associate professor of computer science at Brigham Young University with a PhD from the University of Michigan and nine years of professional experience blending academic research and industry R&D. His work focuses on machine learning—especially deep learning and language models—and experimental intersections with soft robotics and hardware-accelerated probabilistic inference. He has led and advised technology efforts in both startups and corporate labs, including CTO roles and directing Lyric Labs at Analog Devices where he explored what the “GPU of machine learning” might look like. Based in Provo, Utah, he balances rigorous theoretical research with practical systems-building, often asking cross-disciplinary questions that push hardware-software co-design.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of MichiganMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
jupyter-notebook6
antlr6
reinforcement-learning-environments6
robotics6
simulator6
computer-vision5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
simulation5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BYU-PCCL/footron-data
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:63 PRs, 84 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
wingated/wingated.github.io
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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