Robert Giaquinto
Principal AI Research Scientist at Autodesk
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Giaquinto is a Principal AI Research Scientist at Autodesk AI Lab with 11 years of experience building large multimodal foundation models that bridge text, images, and 3D for the AEC industry. Previously at AWS AI Labs he led applied research on LLMs and pretraining strategies for code, text, and structured data powering Amazon Q Developer and Bedrock services. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where his work on deep generative models and approximate inference informed later efforts in retrieval, contrastive learning, and continual learning. Robert combines rigorous academic training with hands-on production scaling—designing tokenizers, multi-task training regimes, and distributed transformer training pipelines. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a rare focus on bringing foundation models into spatial and construction contexts, translating cutting-edge ML techniques into practical tools for 3D workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of MinnesotaB.A. Mathematics Statistics, B.A. Mathematics Statistics at St. Olaf College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (8)
variational-autoencoder10
density-estimation10
variational-inference8
pytorch8
boosting8
stochastic5
stochastic-processes4
derivative4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robert-giaquinto/personal_website
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
robert-giaquinto/text-analysis-on-healthcare-journals
Sep 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:114 commits, 2 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.