Emily Watson

C004

ML Research Lead

London, UK

Summary

ML researcher with expertise in reinforcement learning and large language models. Published 5 papers at top-tier venues including NeurIPS and ICML. PhD from Oxford.

3.5

Years Experience

$165,000

Expected Salary

Onsite

Work Mode

Skills

Languages: Python C++ Julia
Frameworks: PyTorch JAX TensorFlow Flax
Databases: PostgreSQL Neo4j Pinecone
Cloud: GCP Azure
Tools: CUDA Weights & Biases Ray Kubernetes

Work Experience

Research Engineer

DeepMind

2022-09 - present

28 months

Developing large language models for reasoning tasks. Co-authored paper on chain-of-thought prompting accepted at NeurIPS 2024.

Python JAX PyTorch C++ CUDA GCP

Research Intern

OpenAI

2021-06 - 2022-08

14 months

Contributed to RLHF training infrastructure. Implemented distributed training optimizations reducing training time by 30%.

Python PyTorch TensorFlow Kubernetes Azure

Projects

TinyLLM open-source

7 months

Educational implementation of transformer architecture from scratch. 5k GitHub stars, used in university courses.

Python JAX Flax TPU GitHub

RL Playground academic

7 months

PhD research codebase for multi-agent reinforcement learning experiments.

Python PyTorch Gymnasium Weights & Biases GitHub

Education

PhD in Machine Learning

Oxford University

Graduated 2021 • GPA: 3.95

Certifications

  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate
  • Google Cloud ML Engineer