Rylan Schaeffer
AI Research Scientist at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRylan Schaeffer is an AI research scientist with 11 years of experience bridging cutting-edge research and industry impact, currently at Meta after research roles at Google DeepMind and multiple internships at Google and Meta. He’s a Stanford PhD student (on leave) and has a strong academic foundation with degrees from Stanford, Harvard, UCL, and UC Davis, blending computer science, computational engineering, and cognitive neuroscience. Rylan’s work spans foundational AI research and applied GenAI efforts, informed by prior roles in ML engineering and data science at Uber and hands-on deep learning internships. He co-founded a venture at Harvard Innovation Labs and has a track record mentoring and teaching across universities, reflecting an ability to translate research into products and people-focused outcomes. Based in Palo Alto, he’s known for moving fluidly between lab and production settings and for preferring direct introductions—if he doesn’t know you, he asks that you introduce yourself in connection requests.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurial Academy, Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurial Academy at University of California, Davis - Graduate School of ManagementUniversity College LondonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Engineering at University of California, DavisMaster of Science - MS Computational Science Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computational Science Engineering at Harvard UniversityMountain View High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (200)
language-model10
stylegan10
datasets10
hyperparameter-optimization10
svg10
automl10
llm-inference10
api10
llmops10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
evaluation-framework10
nlp10
data-science10
llama10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
RylanSchaeffer/ecs198-cryptocurrency-technologies
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
RylanSchaeffer/Stanford-LaTeX-Poster-Template
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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