Steven Abreu
Member Of Technical Staff, AI Research at MakerMaker.AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Abreu is an AI researcher and engineer with nine years of experience, currently building self-improving AI agents at MakerMaker.AI in San Francisco. He holds a PhD focused on novel compute paradigms, hardware for AI, interpretability, safety, and recurrent neural networks, and has interned or researched at Intel, Google, ETH Zürich, and Ghent on neuromorphic, photonic, and low-precision ML systems. His work spans from practical production ML (real-time pricing at Bloomberg) to brain-inspired and mixed-signal computing, giving him a rare fluency across algorithms, hardware accelerators, and evaluation for safety and scalability. Notably, he has contributed to scaling laws and non‑transformer LLM approaches on new accelerators, reflecting a blend of theoretical depth and hands-on systems engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (incomplete) Physics, Bachelor of Science (incomplete) Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Jacobs University BremenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of GroningenBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
German, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
66reputation
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Github Skills (59)
corona10
neuroscience10
spike10
spiking-neural-networks10
python9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
incremental-learning9
lava9
campus9
deep-learning8
api8
tensorflow8
hugo-theme8
neural-network7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stevenabreu7/cnn_speaker_verification
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:84 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
stevenabreu7/nn_utterances
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:102 commits, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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