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I'm Zachary Nado, a Research Engineer at Google Brain{:target="_blank"} in Cambridge, MA. I'm interested in how to accelerate deep learning training with better algorithms, hyperparameter tuning, and other tricks! I love basically anything with artificial intelligence, cats, and/or space.
I graduated with honors from Brown University with a B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in 2016 where I worked at the Serre Lab{:target="_blank"} for four years. There I worked on various systems engineering problems for the lab, lead a team of six to design a web annotation tool for labelling and viewing machine learning data, and developed my honors thesis{:target="_blank"} which replaced an older computer vision pipeline for classifying mouse behavior with convolutional neural networks.
During my college summers I did two internships with Google where I worked on several search infrastructure projects, one of which was launched as a web search to Android integration where you could send directions to your phone from the web. These summers were followed by an internship at SpaceX{:target="_blank"} as part of their software engineering team where I managed to say "hi" to Elon Musk and watch the launch of the only rocket they've had explode mid flight.
I was also a member of the Brown Space Engineering team{:target="_blank"} for three years where I worked on our first ever satellite, a 1U cubesat that acts as an artificial shooting star that will be launched to orbit in May 2018.
Before that I was a captain and programming lead for my high school FIRST robotics team FRC2168{:target="_blank"}.
If you want to talk feel free to reach out on twitter @zacharynado{:target="_blank"}.
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