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Research Engineer
Google DeepMind

London
ramonacomanescu5 at gmail dot com

I am a Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind in London. working on Safety and Fairness of Generative AI models (Gemini).

Previously, I spent 1.5 years as a Machine Learning Engineer working in Community Integrity at Facebook London, building an ML powered identity verification system.

I received my Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence from the University of Cambridge in 2019, being awared a Special Commendation from the Engineering Department for my overall performance. I researched Sum-Product Copula Networks (which combine sum-product networks, a deep probabilistic model with tractable inference, with copulas, a multivariate cumulative distribution function with flexibility for modeling continuous data.) under the supervision of Robert Peharz and Miguel Hernandez Lobato. Previously, I received my Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Science from The University of Edinburgh in 2018. During my final year at Edinburgh, I researched gender imbalance in academia using topic modeling and data science methods under the supervision of Adam Lopez.

I am originally from Romania. I moved to the UK in 2014 for university and have since lived in Edinburgh, Cambridge and London. I am a proud dual citizen 🇷🇴🇬🇧.

Ask me about ML, Fairness, good food, good walks and good vibes.

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Education

  • MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence, 2019
    University of Cambridge
  • BEng in Computer Science, 2018
    The University of Edinburgh