Vithu Thangarasa
Principal Research Scientist at Cerebras Systems
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolVithu Thangarasa is a Principal Research Scientist with nine years of experience advancing continual and lifelong learning for deep neural networks, currently leading research at Cerebras Systems and heading the AI Hub at Durham College. His work bridges high-performance wafer-scale hardware and algorithmic innovations in computer vision and NLP, with a track record across Uber AI, Tesla, Vector Institute and academic research at University of Guelph. Vithu specializes in scaling learning algorithms to production-class accelerators, pushing toward more generalizable and continuously adapting models. Known for translating academic rigor into engineering impact, he combines hands-on systems optimization with long-term ambitions in artificial general intelligence.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Applied Science (MASc) Engineering Systems and Computing, Master's of Applied Science (MASc) Engineering Systems and Computing at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (28)
classification10
metric-learning10
anaconda10
loss10
docker8
facebook8
theano8
evaluation7
pytorch7
deep-learning7
sequence-to-sequence6
nlp6
evaluation-framework6
deprecated6
regression6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vithursant/MagnetLoss-PyTorch
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
PyTorch implementation of a deep metric learning technique called "Magnet Loss" from Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in ICLR 2016.
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
pytorchdeep-metric-learningdeep-learningmetric-learningmachine-learning
ThorJonsson/Seq2Seq_PlouffeRainbows
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:70 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
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