Nick Frosst
Co Founder at Cohere
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Frosst is a co-founder of Cohere with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge neural network research and product-grade AI. Formerly an RSWE on Geoffrey Hinton’s Google Brain team, he has deep expertise in neural architectures and has transitioned that research rigor into building commercial NLP capabilities. His background spans academic teaching in computer science and cognitive science, vision research, and large-scale engineering internships at Google and Amazon, giving him a rare mix of theoretical grounding and production experience. Based in Toronto, he also brings a creative side as a singer in the band Good Kid, reflecting an ability to communicate and collaborate beyond technical settings. Notably, his trajectory shows a consistent pattern of moving research prototypes into real-world systems and teams.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Double Majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor's of Science Double Majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at University of Toronto
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (43)
converting9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
benchmarking9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
google-search9
nlp8
adversarial-machine-learning8
question-answering8
robustness8
sdk8
security8
neural-network8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nickfrosst/CrossXParallelBot
Dec 2015 - Mar 2020
a reddit bot for grabbing images from r/crossview, converting them, and posting them to r/parallelview
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
pythonbotconvertingpostingreddit
nickfrosst/nickfrosst.github.io
Feb 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:48 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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