Summary
Isay Katsman is a PhD candidate in applied mathematics at Yale with 11 years of experience building ML and computer vision systems across industry and academia. He has interned at Google (working with DeepMind on LLM-driven recommendations for YouTube), Meta FAIR, and DRW, and co-founded and led Cornell AI activities while earning MS/BS degrees at Cornell. His background blends deep research—adversarial examples, generative modeling, and similarity learning—with production engineering (scaling RNN-based extraction over 50 TB on AWS EMR and modifying Caffe for custom training). A competitive programmer turned researcher, he brings rigorous mathematical training to practical ML problems and a track record of shipping scalable prototypes from camera systems to recommendation models.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics at Yale University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Cornell University
High School, High School at Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science
English, Russian, Spanish