Iztok Bajec
Associate Professor
Slovenia
Summary
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RockstarIztok Bajec is an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana with eight years of professional experience intersecting academia and machine learning engineering. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like NVIDIA NeMo, where he has improved large-language-model and speech AI training workflows, added Camembert model support, and fixed multi-node SLURM resume issues—practical work that bridges research and production-scale systems. Based in Slovenia, he blends teaching and research with hands-on debugging and data-processing improvements for tarred datasets and distributed GPU training. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex academic ideas into robust, usable tooling that advances both student learning and real-world ML deployments.
8 years of coding experience
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (16)
huggingface-transformers10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
slurm10
large-language-models10
python10
generative-ai10
asr9
neural-network9
gtts9
freetts9
documentation8
multimodal7
docker4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NVIDIA/NeMo
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
A scalable generative AI framework built for researchers and developers working on Large Language Models, Multimodal, and Speech AI (Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Iztok primarily contributes to the NVIDIA/NeMo project by addressing issues related to training and data processing for large language models and speech AI. They fixed a bug in the training resume functionality within a SLURM multi-node multi-GPU environment, ensuring proper file management across processes. Furthermore, the user added support for the Camembert Huggingface bert-like models to the framework, improving the flexibility for different models. Additionally, they updated documentation and fixed issues within the tarred dataset processing.
asrspeech-recognitionnatural-language-processingttsspeaker-diarization
itzsimpl/NeMo
Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 6 months
nlpconversationalconversational-aichatbotnemo
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