Jeff Bilmes
Founder & CEO at Summary Analytics Inc. (SMR.AI)
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolJeff Bilmes is a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington and founder/CEO of Summary Analytics (SMR.AI), combining 25+ years of academic research in machine learning with product-focused AI entrepreneurship. He leads the MELODI lab, applying optimization and data-interpretation techniques across speech, language, and general AI problems, and has held visiting roles at Google, Berkeley’s Simons Institute, and the Max Planck Institute. Trained at MIT (M.S.) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D.), he bridges deep theoretical foundations and practical systems that extract actionable insights faster and cheaper. His work emphasizes interpretable models and optimization methods that scale from research prototypes to commercial analytics. Colleagues know him for translating complex academic ideas into usable tools and for maintaining active collaborations across linguistics, CS, and engineering.
25 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
python-bindings10
pybind1110
reduction9
cpp8
logging8
python8
swig7
logger7
solace7
data-science2
probabilistic-models2
probabilistic2
machine-learning2
probabilistic-programming1
spdlog1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
melodi-lab/gmtk
Oct 2000 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1922 commits, 1 comment in 20 years
bilmes/bilmes.github.io
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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