Safa Alver
Research Assistant at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Turkey
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Top SchoolSafa Alver is a PhD candidate and research assistant at Mila and McGill University with 11 years of experience bridging electrical engineering, physics, and machine learning research. Her primary focus is reinforcement learning, where she combines rigorous academic training with hands-on experimental work since joining Mila in 2019. With dual undergraduate backgrounds in physics and electrical & electronics engineering and a master’s in electrical engineering, she brings strong cross-disciplinary intuition for modeling complex systems. Based in Montreal and originally from Turkey, she leverages international perspective and long-term research commitment to tackle foundational problems in RL. An understated strength is her ability to translate theoretical insights into reproducible experiments, making her work valuable for both academic and applied ML audiences.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (37)
pytorch10
parallel10
python10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
scaling10
llm10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
ray10
optimization10
data-science9
llm-inference9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alversafa/deep-rl-bootcamp-solns
Aug 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
alversafa/chokepoint-bbs
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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