Davis Wertheimer
AI Research Scientist at IBM
City of White Plains, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavis Wertheimer is an AI research scientist at IBM Watson Research with 11 years of experience focused on distributed AI systems. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell under Bharath Hariharan after earning a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford, blending strong theoretical foundations with interdisciplinary thinking. At Cornell he combined research and teaching in machine learning, and now applies that expertise to scalable, production-relevant AI at IBM. His background includes early industry experience as an advisory software engineer and applied research roles, giving him a practical bent on turning novel ideas into deployable systems. Based in White Plains, NY, he brings both academic rigor and engineering pragmatism to problems at the intersection of distributed systems and machine intelligence. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges deep learning research and systems engineering to make distributed models more robust and efficient.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Horace Greeley High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Symbolic Systems, Bachelor of Science - BS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
Github Skills (30)
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
falcon10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
text-generation9
pytorch9
bloom9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
daviswer/daviswer.github.io
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:87 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
daviswer/foundation-model-stack-sandbox
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 350 pushes, 67 branches in 1 year 1 month
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