Geza Kovacs
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeza Kovacs is a research-driven ML engineer with 18 years of experience focused on improving multilinguality and translation quality in LLMs, currently working on post-training at Anthropic after leading Gemini post-training research at Google. He holds a PhD from Stanford and has been awarded NSF and NDSEG fellowships, blending deep expertise in deep learning, NLP, and HCI with practical product impact. Geza has led teams building interactive machine translation and client-side ML systems, plus deployed widely used user-facing software—most notably HabitLab (12k+ daily users) and the open-source UNetbootin (40M downloads). His work spans both inference-time techniques (metric ensembling, MBR/QE decoding) and dataset engineering (synthetic data, autoraters), and he brings uncommon experience moving research into production at scale. Based in Palo Alto, he combines rigorous academic research with full-stack development chops and a track record of measurable user and translator productivity gains.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English, Hungarian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
qt10
bower10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
qt-gui10
cprogramming-language10
file-manipulation9
filesystem9
javascript9
configuration-management9
fileio9
html9
django8
python8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
unetbootin/unetbootin
Oct 2007 - Nov 2022
UNetbootin installs Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 2 reviews, 695 commits in 15 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Geza was involved in various aspects of the UNetbootin project, including refactoring processes to use non-thread-blocking versions, fixing GUI inconsistencies, and adding a file size indicator to the progress bar. They also contributed to label detection, and implemented a system for parsing and retrieving information from the Grub2 and Syslinux configurations. Furthermore, the user updated the download URLs for several distributions, and addressed compatibility issues.
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crowdresearch/daemo
May 2015 - May 2015
The Daemo crowdsourcing platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Geza primarily focused on front-end development and configuration management, with contributions including UI updates, AngularJS component integration, and changes to settings files. They addressed merge conflicts and added profiles to the contributors section. The user also made several updates to the project's setup, including adding bower install steps and adjusting Vagrant instructions.
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