Felipe Polo
Student Researcher at Google DeepMind
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Polo is a statistician and machine learning researcher with nine years of experience applying data analysis, econometrics, and causal inference to public policy and education. Currently a PhD student in Statistics at the University of Michigan and a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind, he focuses on computational statistics, probabilistic ML, and Bayesian inference to make AI evaluation more efficient. He has interned at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, where he developed statistical models to extract LLM skills and studied scaling laws and plateauing benchmarks for model evaluation. Felipe blends applied impact work—policy evaluations and education research—with deep technical rigor from his mathematical statistics training at IME-USP and international experience at the University of Tokyo. He also founded a data science study group to mentor peers and translate statistical ideas into practical projects, highlighting his mix of leadership, teaching, and research. Notably, he brings an economist’s causal perspective to ML evaluation, enabling insights that go beyond standard performance metrics.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Mestrado, Mathematical Statistics and Probability at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at University of MichiganUNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"University of TokyoUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (29)
evaluation10
transformer10
evaluation-framework10
nlp10
pytorch9
large-language-models9
machine-learning9
language-model9
natural-language-processing9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
leaderboard9
arxiv8
lms8
language-processing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
felipemaiapolo/infoselect
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:71 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
felipemaiapolo/general
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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