Dustin Schwenk
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Schwenk is a research engineer and data scientist with 11 years building high-impact AI systems and datasets, currently known for core contributions to AI2’s OLMo project—the world’s leading fully open language model. He spans the full model lifecycle from pretraining dataset construction and large-scale training experiments to evaluation suite development, with earlier work across vision-language, robotics, and on-device inference. Dustin began his career applying simulation science to aerospace problems and brings that rigor in experimental design and uncertainty quantification to ML research. He has a strong foundation in engineering physics (UIUC) and a track record of turning complex scientific problems into reproducible datasets and benchmarks. Colleagues rely on him for meticulous data curation and pragmatic evaluation strategies that directly improve model robustness and real-world utility.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhysics, Physics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (33)
physics-engine10
artificial-intelligence10
interaction10
computer-vision10
reinforcement-learning8
face8
pose8
deep-learning7
science7
python7
cpp6
ai6
machine-learning6
caffe6
pose-estimation5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
drschwenk/notebooks
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:74 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
drschwenk/pdfextraction
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:73 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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