Deniz Oktay
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Oktay is a research-focused software engineer and machine learning scientist with nine years of experience building large-scale deep learning systems and scientific computing infrastructure. He holds a PhD from Princeton and an MEng/BS from MIT, and his work has earned spotlight and oral awards at top ML conferences. Deniz combines strong Python expertise (JAX, PyTorch) with practical C++/CUDA experience to scale research workflows and deploy foundation-model–class systems across industry teams at OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, and EvolutionaryScale. He has contributed to high-impact bio-AI models (co-first author on ESM3), applied optimization research in Google Brain, and worked on learned physics and 3D learning at NVIDIA. Based in New York, he blends deep theoretical rigor with hands-on engineering that accelerates large-model experimentation and productionization.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Princeton University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (50)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
acceleration9
autograd9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
tensor9
utilization9
gpu-acceleration9
bit9
8-bit9
cuda8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PrincetonLIPS/RandomizedAutomaticDifferentiation
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:13 commits in 4 days
denizokt/denizokt.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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