Lukas Ferrer
Software Engineer at usc-isi-i2
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLukas Ferrer is a software engineer based in Los Angeles with eight years of experience at the intersection of biology, electrical engineering, and AI, giving him a multidisciplinary perspective on neural systems. Trained at USC with both BS and Master's degrees, he blends research-minded rigor with practical engineering as a Research Programmer at USC/ISI. Lukas specializes in translating neuroscience questions into computational tools and prototypes, drawing on insights from lab science, circuit-level thinking, and machine learning. He excels at bridging academic research and software implementation, often working on projects that require both experimental design awareness and scalable code. Colleagues note his ability to see problems from multiple domains simultaneously, which helps uncover non-obvious solutions when modeling neural data.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Southern CaliforniaHighschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Cate School
Github Skills (50)
nearest-neighbors10
similarity10
clustering10
named-entity-recognition9
similarity-search9
language-processing9
text-classification9
extraction9
gymnasium9
cython9
turkish9
nlp9
cosine-similarity9
q-learning9
corenlp8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Ljferrer/SimSent
Apr 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
usc-isi-i2/dig-text-similarity-search
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:659 commits, 66 PRs, 506 pushes in 9 months
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