Eric Nguyen
Co-Founder at Radical Numerics
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Nguyen is a PhD-trained AI and bioengineering researcher turned founder with nine years of experience building cutting-edge machine intelligence systems. As co-founder of Radical Numerics in Palo Alto, he is focused on next-generation AI for recursive self-improvement, blending deep research with product-minded execution. His resume includes internships at DeepMind and multiple Google research teams, plus industry work at Facebook AI and Adobe on image forensics and multimodal generation, showing a rare combination of biological reasoning and computer vision expertise. Trained at Stanford and Cornell after a foundation in civil and environmental engineering, he bridges rigorous academic research and applied engineering across domains from cleantech to life sciences. Notably, his background spans both structural engineering and advanced AI, suggesting a mindset comfortable with long-horizon systems thinking as well as hands-on model development. Based in Palo Alto, he brings entrepreneurial drive and cross-disciplinary depth to ambitious AI projects.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyM.Eng. Computer Science, M.Eng. Computer Science at Cornell UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AI + Bioengineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD AI + Bioengineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (163)
compression10
genomics10
efficientnet10
lightning10
artificial-intelligence10
gru10
pytorch10
lifecycle10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
inference10
encoder-decoder10
sequence-modeling10
autoencoder9
sdk9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HazyResearch/hyena-dna
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Official implementation for HyenaDNA, a long-range genomic foundation model built with Hyena
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 months
foundation-modelsgenomicslanguage-models
exnx/oscar
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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