Ekin 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 School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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