Thomas Lux
Research Scientist at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Lux is a Research Scientist with a decade of experience building high-performance AI/ML systems and developing the mathematical theory that underpins them. Based in Redwood City, he blends production-grade engineering at scale (notably at Meta, where his work cut data-quality costs by 1000× and saved tens of millions in wasted compute) with deep research in distribution prediction, interpretable models, and convex optimization. He excels at models that perform with limited data and has a strong track record of turning theoretical advances—like novel spline and mesh interpolation methods from his PhD work—into robust, efficient code. Comfortable across Fortran, Python, and large-scale infrastructure, he ships tools that improve both model outcomes and operational efficiency. Thomas’s combination of rigorous theory, practical optimization, and an eye for massive cost and latency reductions makes him uniquely effective at bridging research and production.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science with Physics and Mathematics Minors, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science with Physics and Mathematics Minors at Roanoke CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
1,086reputation
702kreached
10answers
2questions
Github Skills (95)
svd10
matrix-factorization10
statistics9
linear-equations9
python9
nonlinear-regression9
regular-expression8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
linear-algebra8
lapack8
blas8
data-science8
ruby7
deep-learning7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tchlux/util
Oct 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 373 commits, 344 pushes in 4 years 5 months
tchlux/VarSys
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
Repository for testing the performance of interpolation techniques.
Contributions:189 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
techniquestestinginterpolationperformanceinterpolation-techniques
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.