hi, i'm lorenss
hi, i'm lorenss
hi, i'm lorenss
yale '26
founder @ YC W25
published in ML & computational cogsci
periodically an artist, filmmaker, and composer.
yale '26
founder @ YC W25
published in ML & computational cogsci
periodically an artist, filmmaker, and composer.
industry
industry
AI Interpretability Research Engineer
aug-dec
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
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
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
Undergraduate Researcher
dec-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
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
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
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
International Physics Olympiad
International Physics Olympiad
2022
Bronze Medal
aug
International Linguistics Olympiad
International Linguistics Olympiad
2022
Silver Medal
aug
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
2018-2021
Music Producer & Audio Engineer
may-jun