Vadim Smolyakov
Machine Learning Engineer II at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Smolyakov is a Machine Learning Engineer II with 11 years of experience building and productionizing large-scale ML systems, now focused on serving and optimizing open-source generative models for Microsoft’s Copilot AI. His background blends deep research (PhD-level work on scalable inference and sampling at MIT) with hands-on engineering across inference stacks like Triton, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM and ONNX, and platformization using Docker and Azure. He has led end-to-end AI product efforts—from hyper-personalization and anomaly detection to LLM fine-tuning and benchmarking—while mentoring interns and driving team-facing ML communities. Notably, he pairs signal-processing roots (MIMO and communications research) with modern deep learning at scale, giving him a rare cross-domain view of model performance and system-level optimization.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMinor Finance, Minor Finance at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMASc Electrical Engineering: Wireless Architecture and Digital Communication, MASc Electrical Engineering: Wireless Architecture and Digital Communication at University of Toronto
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
binary-search10
binary-search-tree10
statistical-inference9
probabilistic9
bayesian9
mcmc9
bayesian-inference9
clustering9
cpp8
modeling8
python8
probabilistic-models8
machine-learning8
variational-inference8
probabilistic-programming8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vsmolyakov/fin
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
vsmolyakov/course_summaries
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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