Eric Slyman is an ML research engineer and PhD candidate based in Portland with nine years of experience building and evaluating vision-and-language models. At Adobe he focuses on model evaluation, safety/harm mitigation, and intelligent prompting for FireFly, bringing research-grade rigor to product-scale ML. His work spans large-scale CLIP training, fair deduplication to reduce subgroup disparities, and behavioral testing that exposes visiolinguistic biases in web-trained embeddings. Prior roles at PNNL and Western Washington demonstrate strengths in differentiable rendering, audiovisual fusion, and GAN-based earth-system emulation that cut inference from weeks to minutes. He combines academic depth with practical engineering—training LAION-scale models on 100+ GPUs and shipping interactive tools for rapid model testing. Outside core research he has a track record of translating complex methods into user-facing interfaces and public-facing science communication.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Oregon State University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Western Washington University
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