Justas Birgiolas
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Ronin Institute
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJustas Birgiolas is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Cincinnati with 11 years of experience applying deep learning, computer vision, and signal-processing techniques to production problems at scale. He pairs a PhD in Computational Neuroscience and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon to bridge rigorous research methods with business strategy, routinely deploying high-performance compute on AWS/GCP and Kubernetes. At ACV Auctions he drives ML system design and cross-functional teams, while continuing scholarly work as a Research Scholar at Ronin Institute. His toolset spans from CUDA and PyTorch to LangChain and MPI, enabling both model innovation (including generative AI and LLM work) and robust engineering for diverse datasets and databases. Notably, his background in neuroscience and simulation tools (NEURON/NMODL, NeuroML) gives him unusual depth in modeling dynamical systems alongside applied ML.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Neuroscience at Arizona State UniversityCertificate, Change Leadership, Certificate, Change Leadership at Cornell UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Carnegie Mellon University
German, Russian, Lithuanian, English
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Github Skills (185)
parallel10
computational-neuroscience10
python10
simulator10
annotations10
standardized10
3d-structure10
datasets10
hyperparameter-optimization10
mlops10
neuroml10
deep-learning10
automl10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JustasB/BlenderNEURON
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Exports 3D structure and activity from NEURON simulator to Blender
Contributions:3 releases, 176 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 3 months
pythonblenderexportssimulator3d-structure
JustasB/neuronunit
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
A package for data-driven validation of neuron and ion channel models using SciUnit
Contributions:6 PRs, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
data-drivenneurosciencevalidationion-channelcomputational-neuroscience
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