Gabriel Orlanski is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a decade of experience in ML and NLP research and engineering. He has interned and contributed to research teams at Google, Replit, Magic, X, and Merlin Labs, working on code generation, program synthesis, semantic parsing, and production-ready model pipelines. A hands-on contributor to open-source ML security tooling, he implemented and debugged a PyTorch adversarial attack in the widely used Adversarial Robustness Toolbox. Gabriel blends rigorous academic work with practical engineering—building experiment tracking for 1,200+ runs, shipping NLP models that improved baselines by multiple factors, and even applying ML to entrepreneurial ventures that generated meaningful revenue. Based in Madison, he pairs deep research instincts with applied systems know-how, often surfacing simple engineering fixes that unlock complex experiments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
High School, High School at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) - Python Library for Machine Learning Security - Evasion, Poisoning, Extraction, Inference - Red and Blue Teams
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Gabriel contributed significantly to the `OverTheAirFlickeringTorch` attack within the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox, primarily focusing on its implementation in PyTorch. Their work involved modifying the attack parameters, addressing delta shape issues, and fixing related code errors. They also worked on adapting the existing code to integrate seamlessly with the ART framework, adding tests and making adjustments for correct functionality.
Contributions:1212 commits, 173 pushes in 4 months
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