Sedrick Keh
Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSedrick Keh is a research scientist at Toyota Research Institute specializing in foundation models, LLM pre-training/post-training, and multimodal systems, building on three years of industry research experience. With an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon, he has worked on language models for embodied systems and AI for social good, bridging rigorous academic research with applied industrial problems. His early work spans low-resource NLP, geospatial ML, and high-performance parallelized deep learning, giving him a practical edge in scaling models and experiments. Based in Los Altos, he combines strong mathematical and data-science foundations from HKUST with hands-on engineering across the model lifecycle, from prototyping to deployment. Notably, he progressed rapidly at TRI from AI resident to research scientist, reflecting both technical depth and an ability to translate research into impactful systems.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Semester Exchange Program Mathematics, Semester Exchange Program Mathematics at University of WaterlooInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Program, International Baccalaureate Diploma Program at Xavier SchoolMaster of Science - MS Machine Learning (MS ML), Master of Science - MS Machine Learning (MS ML) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
reasoning8
jax8
open-data8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sedrick-keh-tri/open_lm_fork
Dec 2023 - Jul 2024
A repository for research on medium sized language models.
Contributions:33 pushes, 16 branches in 6 months
sedrick-keh-tri/transformers
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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