Octavian Ganea
Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT
United States
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Top SchoolOctavian Ganea is a postdoctoral researcher and ML scientist with 11 years of experience embedding geometry into deep learning to accelerate drug and materials discovery. Based at MIT after a PhD from ETH Zürich, he builds models that inject Euclidean symmetries and physical first principles to constrain 3D molecular and material structures, improving accuracy, efficiency, and trust. He also challenged conventional geometric assumptions in representation learning by developing principled Riemannian methods that leverage hyperbolic and elliptic spaces, with implications across robotics, 3D graphics, vision, and NLP. His background includes internships at Google Brain and practical algorithmic work in C++ for protein sequencing, reflecting a blend of theoretical rigor and production-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at EPFLDoctor of Sciences Computer Science, Doctor of Sciences Computer Science at ETH ZürichPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tudor Vianu National High School, Bucharest
French, English
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
7answers
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Github Skills (143)
python10
fasttext10
deep-learning10
word2vec10
in-progress10
disambiguation10
topic-modeling10
bag10
entity10
intellij10
machine-learning10
entity-resolution10
r9
machine-translation9
corpus9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dalab/end2end_neural_el
Aug 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
dalab/pboh-entity-linking
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Source code for the paper "Probabilistic Bag-Of-Hyperlinks Model for Entity Linking" , http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2882988
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 3 years
acmcitationentityentity-linkinglinking
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