Summary
Marko Vasic is a Machine Learning Engineer with a PhD from UT Austin and nine years of experience bridging software engineering, ML research, and product work at organizations including Google DeepMind, Google Brain, Facebook, Novartis, and Nordeus. He helped build a cross-platform Top Eleven game that reached millions of monthly users and contributed SE tools and a regression-test-selection technique during his PhD, blending rigorous research with production-grade engineering. His ML work includes publications at ICML and ICLR and an ICLR paper from his Google Brain internship on neural program repair, plus applied model-interpretability work at Novartis. At DeepMind he currently focuses on optimizing Gemini for Google Search, applying post-training techniques to real-world GenAI systems. He combines deep theoretical training (Coq, Alloy) with hands-on experience shipping large-scale systems and is motivated by the discipline and competitive mindset he draws from professional sports.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Belgrade