Killian Levacher
Principal Data Scientist
Leinster, Ireland
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Top SchoolKillian Levacher is a Principal Data Scientist with 11+ years in software engineering and 7+ years specializing in NLP and deep learning, currently shaping generative AI and LLM safety at Optum after a prolific research tenure at IBM Research. He combines academic rigor—a PhD on adaptive content slicing and 32+ top-tier publications—with product-minded engineering, holding 42+ patents and architecting ML-driven SaaS and Kubernetes-integrated deployments. His work spans PII detection, synthetic data, recommender systems and adversarial red-teaming, particularly for sensitive domains like healthcare and legal. An entrepreneur and inventor, he founded a patented adaptive language-learning startup and continues to bridge research and commercialization across multi-institution consortia. Notably, his background includes pilot training, reflecting a persistent appetite for complex systems and disciplined, safety-conscious design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science (Adaptive Web & Content Slicing Systems), PhD in Computer Science (Adaptive Web & Content Slicing Systems) at Trinity College DublinAviation, Aviation at Aviation Pilot LicenceFrench Aviation Theory Diploma (Brevet d'Initiation Aéronautique) Aviation, French Aviation Theory Diploma (Brevet d'Initiation Aéronautique) Aviation at French Aeronautics Federation
English, French, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
artificial-intelligence10
adversarial-attacks10
python10
toolbox10
machine-learning10
extraction10
inference10
security10
adversarial-machine-learning10
privacy10
ai10
fairness-ml10
robustness10
github-enterprise8
git7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
killianlevacher/blog
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:154 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
killianlevacher/TrumpBSQuoteRNNGenerator
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 months
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