Max Crouse
Staff Research Scientist at IBM
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMax Crouse is a Staff Research Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in neuro-symbolic methods that bridge natural language and symbolic reasoning, particularly semantic parsing into logical forms. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern with a 4.0 GPA and has moved between research and engineering roles at IBM and Microsoft, applying ML to language understanding and cloud storage. His work spans practical systems — from guiding theorem provers with deep RL to integrating graph neural networks with symbolic reasoning — demonstrating a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production-minded engineering. Based in Chicago, he combines academic depth with industry impact, often focusing on interpretable, structured representations that make language models more reliable and composable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, 3.8 GPA, Bachelor's, Computer Science, 3.8 GPA at Indiana University - BloomingtonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0 GPA, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, 4.0 GPA at Northwestern UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mvcrouse/fms-sdg
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Synthetic Data Generation for Foundation Models
Contributions:458 pushes, 303 branches in 7 months
foundation-model-stack/fms-dgt
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Synthetic Data Generation for Foundation Models
Contributions:90 reviews, 303 PRs, 144 pushes in 7 months
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