Jakob Havtorn
ML Engineering Manager at Corti
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolJakob Havtorn is an ML Engineering Manager and Industrial PhD with nine years of experience applying modern machine learning to healthcare, specializing in multimodal problems across speech, text, and images. He has advanced through technical and leadership roles at Corti, where he built the R&D function, led teams shipping microservice-based ML systems, and moved research prototypes into production. His research contributions include publications at ICML, ACL, AISTATS and NPJ Digital Medicine, with expertise in uncertainty quantification and robust speech processing. Comfortable across the full ML lifecycle, Jakob pairs method development and rigorous validation with practical deployment, monitoring and team mentorship. A hands-on researcher who has also taught and supervised students, he blends academic rigor from DTU with product-focused engineering in clinical settings.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
School leaving examination of the Danish Public School, General Education, School leaving examination of the Danish Public School, General Education at Randers RealskoleHigh School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at Randers StatsskoleTechnical University of DenmarkDanish Public School, General Education, Danish Public School, General Education at Grønhøjskolen
English, German, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
numpy10
transcription10
neural-network10
tensor10
tensorflow10
autograd10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
trains10
experiment9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JakobHavtorn/hvae-oodd
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Official source code repository for the ICML 2021 paper "Hierarchical VAEs Know What They Don't Know"
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
icmlcode-repositoryhierarchicalmachine-learning
JakobHavtorn/nn
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Implementation of neural network modules in numpy
Contributions:5 PRs, 54 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
pythonnumpytorchneural-networksmachine-learning
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