170 lines
4.8 KiB
Markdown
170 lines
4.8 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
# Display name
|
|
title: Alex Johnson
|
|
|
|
# Name pronunciation (optional)
|
|
name_pronunciation: ''
|
|
|
|
# Full name (for SEO)
|
|
first_name: Alex
|
|
last_name: Johnson
|
|
|
|
# Pronouns (optional)
|
|
pronouns: he/him
|
|
|
|
# Status emoji
|
|
status:
|
|
icon: 🚀
|
|
|
|
# Is this the primary user of the site?
|
|
superuser: true
|
|
|
|
# Highlight the author in author lists? (true/false)
|
|
highlight_name: true
|
|
|
|
# Role/position/tagline
|
|
role: Senior AI Research Scientist
|
|
|
|
# Organizations/Affiliations to display in Biography blox
|
|
organizations:
|
|
- name: Meta AI
|
|
url: https://ai.meta.com/
|
|
|
|
# Social network links
|
|
# Need to use another icon? Simply download the SVG icon to your `assets/media/icons/` folder.
|
|
profiles:
|
|
- icon: at-symbol
|
|
url: 'mailto:alex.johnson@meta.com'
|
|
label: E-mail Me
|
|
- icon: brands/x
|
|
url: https://twitter.com/AlexAIResearch
|
|
- icon: brands/github
|
|
url: https://github.com/alexjohnsonai
|
|
- icon: brands/linkedin
|
|
url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexjohnsonai/
|
|
- icon: academicons/google-scholar
|
|
url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=alexjohnson
|
|
- icon: academicons/orcid
|
|
url: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
|
|
|
|
interests:
|
|
- Large Language Models
|
|
- Computer Vision
|
|
- Reinforcement Learning
|
|
- AI Ethics
|
|
|
|
education:
|
|
- area: PhD Computer Science (AI Focus)
|
|
institution: Stanford University
|
|
date_start: 2015-09-01
|
|
date_end: 2019-06-30
|
|
summary: |
|
|
Thesis on _Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models_. Supervised by Prof. Andrew Ng. Published 5 papers in NeurIPS and ICML, with 2 best paper awards.
|
|
button:
|
|
text: 'Read Thesis'
|
|
url: 'https://example.com/thesis.pdf'
|
|
- area: MS Computer Science
|
|
institution: Carnegie Mellon University
|
|
date_start: 2013-09-01
|
|
date_end: 2015-05-31
|
|
summary: |
|
|
GPA: 4.0/4.0
|
|
|
|
Specialized in machine learning and robotics.
|
|
- area: BS Computer Science
|
|
institution: MIT
|
|
date_start: 2009-09-01
|
|
date_end: 2013-05-31
|
|
summary: |
|
|
GPA: 3.9/4.0
|
|
|
|
Minored in Mathematics. President of AI Club.
|
|
|
|
work:
|
|
- position: Senior AI Research Scientist
|
|
company_name: Meta AI
|
|
company_url: 'https://ai.meta.com/'
|
|
company_logo: ''
|
|
date_start: 2020-01-01
|
|
date_end: ''
|
|
summary: |2-
|
|
Leading research on multimodal AI systems. Contributed to Llama 2 and other open-source models. 50+ citations in 3 years.
|
|
- position: AI Research Intern
|
|
company_name: OpenAI
|
|
company_url: 'https://openai.com/'
|
|
company_logo: ''
|
|
date_start: 2019-06-01
|
|
date_end: 2019-12-31
|
|
summary: |
|
|
Worked on GPT-3 scaling. Co-authored paper on prompt engineering.
|
|
|
|
# Skills
|
|
# Add your own SVG icons to `assets/media/icons/`
|
|
skills:
|
|
- name: Technical Skills
|
|
items:
|
|
- name: Python & PyTorch
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 95
|
|
icon: code-bracket
|
|
- name: Machine Learning
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 100
|
|
icon: chart-bar
|
|
- name: Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP)
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 85
|
|
icon: cloud
|
|
- name: Hobbies
|
|
color: '#eeac02'
|
|
color_border: '#f0bf23'
|
|
items:
|
|
- name: Hiking in the Rockies
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 80
|
|
icon: person-simple-walk
|
|
- name: Building Custom PCs
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 90
|
|
icon: cpu-chip
|
|
- name: Sci-Fi Reading
|
|
description: ''
|
|
percent: 70
|
|
icon: book-open
|
|
|
|
languages:
|
|
- name: English
|
|
percent: 100
|
|
- name: Spanish
|
|
percent: 50
|
|
|
|
# Awards.
|
|
# Add/remove as many awards below as you like.
|
|
# Only `title`, `awarder`, and `date` are required.
|
|
# Begin multi-line `summary` with YAML's `|` or `|2-` multi-line prefix and indent 2 spaces below.
|
|
awards:
|
|
- title: Best Paper Award
|
|
url: https://neurips.cc/
|
|
date: '2022-12-01'
|
|
awarder: NeurIPS
|
|
icon: hero/trophy
|
|
summary: |
|
|
Awarded for groundbreaking work on efficient training of large models.
|
|
- title: AI Innovation Grant
|
|
url: https://www.nsf.gov/
|
|
date: '2021-06-15'
|
|
awarder: National Science Foundation
|
|
icon: hero/currency-dollar
|
|
summary: |
|
|
$500,000 grant for research in ethical AI development.
|
|
- title: Outstanding PhD Thesis
|
|
url: https://www.stanford.edu/
|
|
date: '2019-06-30'
|
|
awarder: Stanford University
|
|
icon: hero/academic-cap
|
|
summary: |
|
|
Recognized for contributions to scaling laws in deep learning.
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
Alex Johnson is a Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta AI, where he leads groundbreaking work on large language models and multimodal systems. His research has been published in top conferences like NeurIPS and ICML, with over 10,000 citations. Alex is passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI while ensuring ethical development. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking in the Rockies, building custom PCs, and mentoring the next generation of AI talent.
|