William Cukierski
Senior Staff DRE at Kaggle
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Cukierski is a Senior Staff Developer Relations Engineer and leader with 13+ years of experience building and running high-profile AI competitions, currently heading the competitions team at Kaggle and leading related efforts within Google and DeepMind. He combines deep technical and scientific training—a BA in Physics and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering—with hands-on product and community-focused execution, translating real-world research problems into scalable, crowd-sourced ML challenges. At Kaggle he has orchestrated contests that mobilize a global community of data scientists, turning competitions into reproducible benchmarks and talent pipelines for industry and academia. Comfortable bridging research, engineering, and operations, he applies rigorous experimental thinking from his biomedical research background to platform design and metrics. Based in the New York City area, he’s known for turning complex datasets and evaluation protocols into engaging, solvable challenges that surface novel solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyB.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Cornell UniversityPhD, Biomedical Engineering, PhD, Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University
Github Skills (14)
docker-image10
kaggle10
fact-checking10
docker10
data-quality10
api10
python10
open-datasets10
datasets10
data-science9
machine-learning9
open-source8
cran4
dockerfile4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kaggle/kaggle-api
May 2018 - May 2019
Official Kaggle API
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
kaggleapipythonkaggle-apimachine-learning
wcuk/KaggleScripts
May 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 2 days
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