Ellie Kitanidis
Principal Research Scientist at Code Metal
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEllie Kitanidis is a Principal Research Scientist in Palo Alto with a decade of experience at the intersection of AI and physics, currently leading a foundation models team at Code Metal. An OpenAI Scholar and former OpenAI fellow, she has driven research in contrastive learning, reinforcement learning, and large language models through roles at Imbue and OpenAI. Her Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley and years of cosmology research (Berkeley Lab, SLAC) inform a quantitative, principled approach to model design and scientific ML. She combines hands-on algorithm development with team leadership, having mentored and instructed data-science capstone teams and led research groups. Notably, her background bridges deep domain knowledge of the universe’s large-scale structure with practical advances in modern AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at University of California, BerkeleyB.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Stanford University
Greek, English
Github Skills (20)
imaging7
self-supervised-learning7
scale6
pytorch-lightning6
python6
large-scale6
machine-learning5
lightning5
pytorch4
deep-learning4
gis4
clustering3
cosmology3
datasets2
astrophysics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ekitanidis/ekitanidis.github.io
Jun 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
ekitanidis/heart4cast
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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