Minttu Alakuijala
Research Scientist at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinttu Alakuijala is a research scientist with 11 years' experience at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and language models, currently training agentic LLM assistants for Meta’s AI glasses in San Francisco. With a PhD co-supervised by Google, Inria and École Normale Supérieure and a postdoc at Aalto, she blends rigorous academic research—on self-taught robots, language-conditioned RL, Monte Carlo tree search and multimodal reward models—with hands-on systems work. Her background includes multiple Google internships translating vision and NLP research into production-facing projects and tooling, and she has a track record of turning task decomposition and DAG-based planning ideas into practical agent behaviors. Comfortable moving between code, experiments and theory, she often focuses on systematic, programmatic thinking with LLMs to enable robust, multi-step decision-making in embodied and assistive settings. An unusual mix of robotics autonomy and agentic language system design gives her a practical edge in building interactive, safety-conscious AI assistants.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Ecole normale supérieureHigh School, High School at Etelä-Tapiolan lukioUniversity College London
English, Finnish, German, Swedish, French
Github Skills (19)
scenic10
machine-learning9
ai9
google9
computer-vision7
deep-learning6
vision-transformer5
transformers5
jack4
python4
reader3
jax2
reinforcement-learning1
pytorch1
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
minttusofia/rl4qa
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:137 commits, 58 pushes in 6 months
arvikachristy/miniworld-ofbits
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:98 commits, 4 pushes in 1 month
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