Sherman Siu
Student
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSherman Siu is an MMath (CS) student at the University of Waterloo with a decade of hands-on experience building and shipping deep learning systems across industry leaders including Apple, Huawei, and Abnormal Security. He focuses on transformer-based LLMs, computer vision, NLP, and reinforcement learning, with practical achievements ranging from improving speech recognition WER via novel relative position embeddings to boosting text-model accuracy and robustness in production settings. Sherman pairs strong research instincts with production engineering—designing deployment pipelines, automated retraining DAGs, and explainability tools (SHAP/LIME)—and has led end-to-end projects from data prep to executive demos. A Waterloo BMath graduate with minors in statistics and combinatorics & optimization (graduated with distinction), he brings both mathematical rigor and product-minded delivery to applied ML problems. An unspoken strength is his fluency across the stack—cloud orchestration, APIs, and front-end demos—enabling research prototypes to reach users.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Marc Garneau Collegiate InstituteMaster's of Mathematics in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Master's of Mathematics in Computer Science, Deep Learning at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (200)
transformers10
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
meter10
lora10
gemma10
cpp10
glm10
c5110
conda-forge10
uci10
multimodal10
audio10
progress-bar10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
shermansiu/staged-recipes
Apr 2025 - Nov 2025
A place to submit conda recipes before they become fully fledged conda-forge feedstocks
Contributions:80 pushes, 13 branches in 7 months
shermansiu/.vim
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
.vim Backup
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
neovimbackupvim
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