Lucas Meyer
Principal Research Scientist at MeyerPerin Foundation
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Meyer is a Principal Research Scientist at Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab with a decade of experience applying NLP and large language models to societal problems. Trained as a computer scientist and financial economist with an MBA, he bridges deep technical research and practical, economically-minded deployment of AI across industry and public sectors. His career spans research and leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon, plus hands-on philanthropic work managing AI and STEM education grants through the MeyerPerin Foundation. Comfortable briefing audiences from students to heads of state, he combines rigorous modeling instincts with clear, persuasive communication. A longtime practitioner since 2016 in NLP and LLMs, he uniquely pairs academic finance training with production-scale AI delivery to maximize social impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Finance, General, (incomplete), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Finance, General, (incomplete) at University of WashingtonMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Finance, General, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Finance, General at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of BusinessUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
classifiers10
sdk10
artificial-intelligence10
microsoft-sql9
ai9
powershell9
computer-vision9
detectors9
llm9
openai9
interpretable-machine-learning9
documentation-generator9
chatbot8
iml8
sql8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lucas-a-meyer/using-quarto
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:133 commits, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
MeyerPerin-Foundation/thread-manager
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:164 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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