Žiga Avsec
Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolŽiga Avsec is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems, following a trajectory from PhD work in informatics at TUM to research roles at DeepMind. He has advanced through multiple research scientist ranks since 2019 and brings a strong quantitative background from physics (MS, BS) and a PhD, blending theoretical rigor with production-minded research. His background includes academic collaborations (a visiting stint at Stanford) and entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder/CTO of a targeted point-of-sale advertising startup, reflecting comfort moving between lab, product and business settings. Known for turning complex ML ideas into deployable systems, he operates at the intersection of cutting-edge research and applied impact within a leading AI lab.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at Technical University of MunichMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
German, English, Slovenian
Github Skills (74)
python10
package-management10
cookiecutter10
structural-variation10
deep-learning10
gpu10
genomics10
computational-biology10
api10
bioconda10
biology10
conda10
zoo10
command-line-utility10
motif10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kipoi/kipoi-veff
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Variant effect prediction plugin for Kipoi
Contributions:3 releases, 90 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 1 month
variant-effect-predictionprediction
Avsecz/gin-train
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Tracking ML experiments using gin-config, wandb, comet.ml and S3.
Contributions:73 commits, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 months
machine-learningwandb
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