Germán Kruszewski
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolGermán Kruszewski is a cognitive scientist and postdoctoral researcher with 12 years of experience at the intersection of NLP research and applied machine learning, currently based in Barcelona and holding roles at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and NAVER LABS Europe. His PhD work probed how Distributional Semantic Models capture human conceptual knowledge—testing entailment, negation, and semantic compatibility—while his postdoctoral research has shifted toward communicative success and lifelong, incremental learning. He blends deep academic rigor with practical engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as FacebookResearch’s CommAI-env where he added dynamic event handling and grid-world primitives to support flexible task initialization. Comfortable moving between Python back-end development and theoretical modeling, he is especially interested in self-organizing ML approaches that enable continual learning. Colleagues know him for bridging precise experimental evaluation with system-level implementations that stress-test state-of-the-art NLP capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cognitive Science at Università di TrentoLicenciatura, Computer Science, Licenciatura, Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
Spanish, English, Italian, French
Github Skills (7)
data-structures10
event-handling10
architectures10
python10
data-structure10
architecture10
compatibility9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/CommAI-env
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
A platform for developing AI systems as described in A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08130
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Germán implemented support for dynamic event handlers within the `commai-env` repository, adding flexibility to task initialization and execution. They introduced Python 2.6+ compatibility changes by replacing the `Counter` collection with `defaultdict` for broader platform support. The user also added a new `remove_entity` primitive to the grid world within the repository and added code for cleanup callbacks.
arxivdevelopingabsdeep-learningmachine-learning
germank/germank.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
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