Derek Prijatelj
Graduate Student Researcher
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Prijatelj is a researcher and machine learning engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and a decade of experience exploring the interface of information theory and ML. His work focuses on novelty detection, open set/world recognition, and principled Bayesian evaluation of uncertainty in classification models, with practical implementations tested across diverse neural architectures. He has applied these skills in academic and applied settings—from AFRL and NSF-funded NLP projects to designing production-aware NLP architecture for Rotella Qdeck—bridging theory and deployable systems. Unusually, he combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on system design and model calibration using tools like VAEs, reflecting a pragmatic eye for what methods are actually useful in practice.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Duquesne UniversityHigh School, High School at Mars Area School DistrictDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Notre Dame
English, German
Stackoverflow
885reputation
138kreached
6answers
4questions
image-processing
top-5%
computer-vision
top-5%
opencv
top-5%
Github Skills (61)
markdown10
trello10
org-mode10
graph10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
clojurescript10
image-processing9
opencv9
clojure9
collaboration9
reload9
computer-vision9
privacy8
git8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prijatelj/compute_scripts
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
prijatelj/docstr
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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