Summary
Sebastian Pilarski is a Founding Engineer and Research Lead with a decade of experience building and shipping ML and RL solutions across startups, academia, and moonshot R&D. He has led technical teams at Google X to accelerate de-risking of high-priority projects and translated research into production architectures for supply chain, mental health, and climate applications. His PhD-level research in reinforcement learning and delayed-feedback bandits produced practical algorithms now applied in real-world systems, and his work at McGill and Siemens Energy moved ML prototypes into safety-critical engine controls. As a two-time founder and accelerator co-founder, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with rigorous experimentation and rapid prototyping. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep theoretical insight with hands-on deployment experience that repeatedly turns novel research into scalable products. Notably, he has a track record of creating tools and generative sampling techniques that seeded larger development teams and operationalized predictions for critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence + Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence + Software Engineering at McGill University
English, Polish, Spanish