Michael Pust
Technical Staff, Research at Essential AI
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Pust is a research-focused software engineer with 20+ years of experience applying NLP, speech recognition, and machine translation to real-world problems—from DARPA field exercises to autonomous aircraft. He blends deep engineering (C++, GPU-accelerated deep learning, MPI/Hadoop) with hands-on research practice, shepherding state-of-the-art MT and semantic-parsing pipelines into production and operational use. At Merlin Labs he led a small team building a live speech-to-semantics system for ATC communications, and now at Essential AI he specializes in pragmatic LLM orchestration—“leashing” models so they are reliably useful. Comfortable mentoring students and engineers alike, he has a track record of turning research ideas into deployable systems and visualization tools that reveal error modes others miss.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelors Mathematics, Bachelors Mathematics at University of California, RiversideGithub contributions (4)
isi-nlp/sbmt
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
merlinlabs/sempre
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Semantic Parser with Execution
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 months
executionsemanticparser
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