M Bari
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolM Saiful Bari (Maruf) is an applied scientist with eight years of experience specializing in pretraining anatomy, LLM alignment, and robust evaluation of frontier models. He has driven multilingual pretraining and post-training for large models at AWS and led core LLM training and alignment work (ALLaM) at SDAIA, earning an MIT TR35 award for that effort. His PhD research focused on transfer learning for neural models, and he contributed to BLOOM’s architecture, pretraining, and prompt engineering. Multiple internships at AWS honed his expertise in parameter-efficient multi-task inference and cross-lingual few-shot adaptation. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs deep research credentials from NTU and IUT with practical production experience shipping Nova-series multilingual models. He often emphasizes that “an algorithm must be seen to be believed,” reflecting a bias toward empirical, demonstrable results.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Enginnering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Enginnering at Islamic University of TechnologyHigh School National Curriculum given by government, High School National Curriculum given by government at Government Laboratory High SchoolAssociate’s Degree Science, Associate’s Degree Science at Dhaka City CollegePh.D. Candidate Computer Science, Ph.D. Candidate Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Bangla
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Github Skills (156)
transformers10
hugo-theme10
language-model10
python10
word-segmentation10
to-do10
transformer-models10
prompt-engineering10
deep-learning10
gemma10
sequence-to-sequence10
glm10
volumes10
pre-trained-model10
prompt-tuning10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sbmaruf/promptsource
Nov 2021 - Apr 2024
Toolkit for collecting and applying prompts
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 6 months
collectingpromptspython
sbmaruf/named-entity-recognition
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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