Marek Poliks
Head Of AI at Hong Kong Baptist University
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMarek Poliks is Head of AI at LaunchDarkly and a multidisciplinary researcher with nine years of experience at the intersection of agent-to-agent interaction, AI design, and the philosophy of computation. He blends academic rigor—a PhD from Harvard and published work with MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge—with product-facing roles that span AI incubation, technical leadership, and customer-facing technical sales. Based in Minneapolis, he runs an influential biweekly podcast on AI and design, has held international residencies (EPFL, Monash, Shenzhen), and co-edited a journal on AI interfaces, signaling a rare mix of scholarship, public-facing thought leadership, and practical delivery. Notably, his research has been incorporated into AI curricula worldwide and is currently supported by Google as he develops a new book on AI interface design.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Music - BMus Music Composition, Bachelor of Music - BMus Music Composition at Oberlin ConservatoryBachelor of Arts - BA Politics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Politics at Oberlin College
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Github Skills (15)
sound-effects7
supercollider4
audio4
computer-music2
mel2
descriptor1
synthesis1
pytorch1
transformer1
speech-synthesis1
inversion1
speech1
spectrogram1
text-to-speech1
speech-to-text1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mpoliks/beatgrid
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
mpoliks/archon
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 69 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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