Max Tian
Member Of Technical Staff at Cohere
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Tian is a machine learning and data science engineer with nine years of experience building and deploying large-scale NLP and ML systems across startups and research teams. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere, he specializes in LLM training and post-training workflows—SFT, RL, synthetic data and agent reasoning—work he previously advanced at Reka AI and ServiceNow Research. He has a strong track record shipping production ML services (intent detection, topic modelling, vision-based attribute extraction) that measurably improved accuracy and latency for product search and conversational AI. Max pairs academic rigor (MSc in Statistics) with applied R&D, having developed novel neural calibration for polygenic scores and reinforcement-learning trading strategies. Comfortable across the full ML lifecycle, he blends research-level model design with practical deployment skills (PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes) and a knack for turning noisy real-world data into repeatable, high-impact systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Statistics, Master of Science - MS, Statistics at McMaster UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Finance, Bachelor’s Degree, Finance at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (94)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
speech-recognition10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maxmatical/ml-cheatsheet
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:792 commits, 792 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
maxmatical/pytorch-projects
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:110 commits, 1 PR, 100 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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