Spencer Kent
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Kent is a research scientist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at the intersection of machine learning, signal processing, and systems engineering. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and has transitioned research on sparse coding and visual perception into applied work—from postdoctoral image compression research to neural-interface projects at CTRL-labs and software for Google’s advanced sensor teams. As co-founder of Kozu and a consultant at The NiVACK Group while now at Yahoo, he blends startup pragmatism with rigorous academic training to ship production-ready ML and data systems. He also teaches and mentors (FourthBrain) and has a hands-on hardware background dating to early lab instrumentation and prototyping, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency across bits, brains, and minimalism.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree - with Distinction in Research Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree - with Distinction in Research Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice UniversityAlbuquerque High School
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (49)
fuzzy-search9
datastore9
typesense9
two-dimensional9
full-text-search8
bayesian-inference8
bayesian8
mcmc8
probabilistic-models8
probabilistic8
pinecone8
statistical-inference8
fuzzy8
probabilistic-programming8
in-memory8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spencerkent/generalized-lloyd-quantization
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
spencerkent/resonator-networks
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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