Ekin Tiu
Software Engineer at Valar Labs
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEkin Tiu is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in machine learning and AI research, currently building ML systems at Valar Labs. He has a strong research pedigree from Stanford and Harvard Medical School, where he co‑authored a Nature Biomedical Engineering paper and helped create a zero‑shot, multimodal chest x‑ray tool that reduces the need for large labeled datasets. Ekin blends deep learning competence (contrastive and semi‑supervised methods) with applied healthcare and autonomy projects, from hospital EHR modeling to safety metrics for self‑driving systems. He communicates complex ideas widely—his technical writing on ML topics has amassed over 700,000 views—and frequently ships open research code in PyTorch. Based in Houston, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering, often converting novel research into reproducible tools that other groups adopt.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Vanguard High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
supervised-learning9
self-supervised-learning9
classification9
annotations8
discord-bot8
discord7
ray7
machine-learning7
pytorch6
deep-learning6
tower6
tensorflow6
jekyll4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ekkin2/fitmapp
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:267 pushes, 7 branches, 1 issue in 11 months
hcolemantx/285zTT4
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
285Z Discobots Repository for the 2020 Tower Takeover Game
Contributions:150 commits, 1 PR, 79 pushes in 3 months
discordbotdiscord-bottakeovertower
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