Lucas Souza
Founder at Derivada
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Souza is an AI-focused founder and researcher with 11 years of experience building applied machine learning systems across government, industry, and open-source communities. He leads Derivada, an organization promoting AI innovation through open projects, education, and community-building, and previously served as Principal Researcher at Numenta where he led LLM training and large-scale distributed deep learning efforts. His background includes deploying NLP and predictive models for government auditing at the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General and mentoring hundreds of students through Udacity nanodegrees. Comfortable with supervised, self-supervised, reinforcement, meta and continual learning, he has run multi-thousand GPU-hour experiments and built training/testing frameworks across modalities (image, text, speech, video, 3D, graphs, embodied). A serial founder and organizer (co-founder of Deep Learning Brasilia and Brains@Bay meetup), he blends technical depth with product and operational experience from startups to large enterprises. Based in Brasília, he pairs formal graduate study in informatics with a hands-on, lifelong-learning ethos inspired by Feynman.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization Deep Learning, Specialization Deep Learning at CourseraNanodegree Deep Learning, Nanodegree Deep Learning at UdacityBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Universidade Católica de BrasíliaBachelor's degree Accounting, Bachelor's degree Accounting at USP - Universidade de São PauloMaster of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at Universidade de BrasíliaFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Dev Bootcamp
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (39)
pytorch10
mixture-of-experts10
machine-learning10
inference10
data-parallelism10
deepspeed10
deep-learning10
gpu10
compression10
optimization10
theory9
simulator9
robotics9
distributed-training9
paper9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lucasosouza/nupic.embodied
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year
numenta/nupic.embodied
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:76 reviews, 206 commits, 63 PRs in 1 year
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