Michael Glass
Senior Research Scientist at IBM
Bayonne, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Glass is a research staff member at IBM with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and roughly eight years of professional research experience building LLM-based solutions for natural language understanding and code generation. His work spans pre-training transformer architectures, question answering, information extraction, and knowledge base completion, with notable open-source contributions in TableQA, HotpotQA, KILT tasks, and table augmentation. He combines deep academic training—rooted in a long UT Austin affiliation—with practical systems work dating back to early software development and internships in industry. Based in Bayonne, NJ, he maintains a public research footprint on Google Scholar and GitHub, signaling a commitment to reproducible, community-facing research. An interesting through-line in his career is the steady pivot from classical research assistant roles into leading applied LLM efforts that bridge QA benchmarks and production-ready tooling.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (38)
squad10
pytorch10
dbpedia10
commoncrawl10
llama10
inference10
tpu10
amd10
llm10
audio10
openai10
natural-language-processing10
re210
cuda10
transformer10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/span-selection-pretraining
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Code to create pre-training data for a span selection pre-training task inspired by reading comprehension and an effort to avoid encoding general knowledge in the transformer network itself.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
training-data
IBM/cc-dbp
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020
A dataset for knowledge base population research using Common Crawl and DBpedia.
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 9 months
commoncrawldbpediaknowledge-base-populationcommon-crawlibm-research-ai
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