Tom Knowles Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, US

Leading training/eval infra.

Built cool simulation software for robots! Employee #8ish.

Mountain View, California, US

I wanted to learn about ray tracing, so I worked on synthetic world and sensor simulation for self-driving trucks, as one of three people on Aurora’s core physically-based raytracing and renderer team.

Stanford, CA, US

Taught Machine Learning (CS 229), with professor Andrew Ng; and taught the year-long graduate Complexity Theory track, with professors Omer Reingold and Li-Yang Tan.

Mountain View, CA, US

Worked on all sorts of Machine Learning Infra for Mineral: X's sustainable agriculture moonshot.

Stanford, California, US

• Research on symmetry in meta-learning and computer vision, in Chelsea Finn's lab
• Co-authored papers accepted to ICLR 2021 and ICLR 2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02933
• Devised experiments, trained meta-learning models in PyTorch, wrote and validated proofs, and presented results

California, 94086, US

Implemented modern Transformer models to improve existing natural language models and automate new tasks in the RMA pipeline, using PyTorch

London, Lambeth, GB

• Intern at early startup, acquired in 2019
• Fully implemented and back-tested a set of machine learning and financial optimization algorithms in Java
• Pitched this product to a major investment management company which consequently signed on as a client

London, GB

First non-PhD intern at the British National Institute for AI/Data Science.

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Mathematics