Michael Lefkowitz
Member Of Technical Staff at Greater Human
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lefkowitz is a technical leader and computational linguist with 12 years of experience building production-grade conversational AI and NLP systems, now serving as Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco. He has led and scaled teams at IBM and McD Tech Labs, driving NLU, NLG, dialog management, and voice-agent production for real-world drive-thru and enterprise ordering systems. Earlier roles at Apprente and Google reflect deep expertise in data-efficient approaches—he co-authored patents for a generative grammar–based simulation method to produce labeled training data where corpora are scarce. Michael pairs a PhD in Linguistics with hands-on engineering and product judgment, often toggling between individual contributor work, management, and technical strategy. He also taught computational linguistics at Dartmouth and UCLA, signaling a commitment to rigorous foundations as well as applied deployment. Colleagues know him for turning formal language theory into pragmatic, low-latency conversational products that work at scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Linguistics, Bachelor's degree Linguistics at Dartmouth CollegeUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Japanese, French
Github Skills (4)
entropy6
react3
probot2
github1
Github contributions (5)
michaellefkowitz/Durexp
Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:34 pushes in 1 year 11 months
michaellefkowitz/Tessella
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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