hi, i'm lorenss

hi, i'm lorenss

hi, i'm lorenss

study @ yale
work @ hume.ai
published in ML & computational cogsci
periodically an artist, filmmaker, and composer.

industry

industry

industry

AI Interpretability Research Engineer

aug-

writing paper on novel mech interp approaches in speech production

robust generative sliders for gender, pitch, nasality, etc.

AI Alignment Research Engineer Intern

may-aug

engineering of multimodal ML models for empathic speech & language processing

sparse feature extraction for audio generation, data quality pipelines, distributed training

Stealth Startup

Stealth Startup

Stealth Startup

2023

Software Engineer Lead Intern (UI/UX)

may-aug

frontend & UI/UX development pre-product to MVP for AI app

developed cognitive learning theory framework for UX for LLM/RAG interaction

Nameyse

Nameyse

Nameyse

2021-2022

Web Development Lead

jun-jan

led full-stack team in launch of two websites (filmaibut.lv and zemekasdzied.lv)
100k+ visitors and EUR 13000+ in donations

research

research

research

Undergraduate Researcher

dec-

distilling & learning circuits of probabilistic world models with VAEs

Undergraduate Research Assistant

jan-may

fine-tuning methods for multimodal ML models in language-driven fMRI data prediction

Undergraduate Researcher

may-feb

paper
contributed to research on GPT3 & LLaMA's linguistic capabilities in SVA

tech

tech

tech

Director of Development

may-

leading the development of the largest CS club at Yale
9 software teams with 100+ developers creating student-centric applications

Team Lead @ MajorAudit

may-

lead a full-stack team of 9 in developing an AI-enabled degree auditing platform
market research, product design, UI/UX, full lifecycle integration of MVP

Zinti! / startup

Zinti! / startup

Zinti! / startup

2022-2023

Co-founder, CTO

mar-apr

prototype of a double-nested GPT interactive agent for sales & product customization

8 prizes in various national and international entrepreneurship competitions

Additional projects

Additional projects

Additional projects

ClaimCap: live fact checking from video transcriptions

ClaimCap: live fact checking from video transcriptions

2024

pitch
speech-to-text RAG pipeline w/ Llama 3.1 & web search to generate a consensus on claims
winner of Baltic AI Hackathon 2024, working with Meta and IBM for B2B implementation

Live map for intercity bus networks

2021-2023

ML model for bus delays & automatic route processing, real-time bus location reporting
national award for ”Best Software Project” in LATA Open Data Hackathon
implemented by the Latvian Ministry of Transport

Node-based logic gate simulator

2022

C++ platform used to demonstrate asynchronous circuits in Latvian high schools

Personal ML library

2021-2022

hand-written ML library in C implementing backprop and simple deep neural nets

used to create CNNs for MNIST, RL agents for arcade games from scratch

awards

awards

awards

International Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

2022

Bronze Medal

aug

International Linguistics Olympiad

International Linguistics Olympiad

International Linguistics Olympiad

2022

Silver Medal

aug

art

art

art

Co-Director, DOP, Editor, Music Producer

aug-sep

worked on the TV series "Bruģis Manās Kurpēs" with 20k+ viewers

edited and color corrected 100h+ of video content

K Films

K Films

K Films

2018-2021

Music Producer & Audio Engineer

may-jun

composed & produced full film soundtracks for feature length films with 2m+viewers
”Saki Jā!” (2021)
”Jaungada Taksometrs” (2018)
”Jaungada Taksometrs 2” (2019)

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