Mantas Bakšys
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMantas Bakšys is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge with eight years of experience at the intersection of formal methods, machine learning, and applied research. He has interned and researched with leading teams—OpenAI, AWS, and Cambridge professors including Timothy Gowers—focusing on automated theorem proving, motivated proofs, and ML-driven formalisation. His open-source work on Lean's mathlib3 demonstrates deep hands-on contributions to theorem-proving infrastructure, particularly in order theory and data-structure lemmas. Currently balancing research roles at Project Numina and a Student Investment Partner position at Creator Fund, he blends rigorous formal-reasoning skills with practical AI-for-code experience. A less obvious strength is his ability to translate dense mathematical formalism into working code and APIs that advance both proof assistants and applied ML systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (9)
proofs10
theorem-proving10
ordered-set10
proof10
formal-methods10
ordered10
leanback10
data-structure9
data-structures9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leanprover-community/mathlib3
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Lean 3's obsolete mathematical components library: please use mathlib4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 161 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mantas primarily contributed to the `mathlib3` library, focusing on adding and modifying lemmas and APIs related to order theory and lexicographic orders, as well as data structures. They implemented and extended existing functionalities within the formal mathematics library, demonstrating a focus on theorem proving and formal methods. Their contributions included lemmas for various mathematical structures and involved working on existing code.
maththeorem-provingcomponents-librarymathematicsjavascript
MantasBaksys/mantasbaksys.github.io
Dec 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:30 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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