Zachary Horvitz
PHD Student at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Horvitz is a Google PhD Fellow and CS PhD student at Columbia University with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading machine learning research and engineering teams. He transitioned from applied roles—Senior ML Engineer and Research Lead at Rad AI—into academia, focusing on pretraining, inference-time scaling, and robustness in large models. His background blends rigorous research (AI2 internship, Brown graduate research) with product-oriented ML deployment, including a founder-led recommender engine and content contributions to educational resources. Notably, he has taught deep learning courses and led data-driven projects in student publications, demonstrating an ability to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. Based in New York, he combines interdisciplinary training in computer science and anthropology with a track record of moving research into practical systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Anthropology, Computer Science, Anthropology at Brown University
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Github Skills (34)
scroll10
malmo10
minecraft9
react9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
nvidia8
caffe8
nvidia-docker8
tensorrt7
inference7
gpu7
interaction6
triton6
pytorch6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zacharyhorvitz/satire-gen
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Repo for Context Driven Satirical Headline Generation
Contributions:50 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
reactheadlineheadline-generation
zacharyhorvitz/Hierarchical-Graph-Priors
May 2020 - Aug 2020
DQN implementation in pytorch
Contributions:58 commits, 62 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
pytorchgraphshydradqn
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