Nick Roberts
Research Scientist Intern at Meta
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolNick Roberts is a research-focused machine learning scientist pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, combining 12 years of engineering and research experience across industry labs at Meta, Microsoft, Together AI, and AWS with advanced training from Carnegie Mellon and UC San Diego. He specializes in data-centric AutoML—studying how to pick and curate data for foundation models and automating their adaptation to niche scientific tasks like PDE solvers, protein folding, and climate modeling. His internships span both applied and foundational work, from Llama generative AI at Meta to production-focused ML at Intuit and Teradata, giving him a rare blend of research rigor and systems-level engineering. Based in London, he is motivated by democratizing ML for long-tail scientific problems and often tackles domains far from standard benchmarks, revealing an appetite for high-impact, cross-disciplinary challenges.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Fresno City CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (90)
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deep-learning8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Open-Invite/OpenInvite
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:123 commits, 110 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
cxxz/automl_decathlon_starter_kit
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 17 pushes in 3 months
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