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pirroh/README.md

👋   Hi there, I'm Michele Catasta

👨‍💻   VP of AI at Replit (building the future of software development with AI)

🔬   Former Head of Applied Research @ Google Labs (working on AI applied to Source Code, Large Language Models)

👨‍🏫   Former Research Scientist and Instructor in AI @ Stanford University

🧐   Expertise: Large Language Models, AI for Code, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Science

🌐  [Personal page] - [CV] - [LinkedIn] - [X] - [Google Scholar]

‼️   News

When What Links
Apr 2024 Replit Code Repair announced at Replit Developer Day [tech report] - [X thread] - [video] - [media]
Oct 2023 Replit AI for All announced at AI Engineer Summit [video] - [media] - [blog post]
Jun 2023 I published the Replit AI Manifesto [blog post]
May 2023 PaLM 2 announced at Google I/O -- I worked on code pre-training and evaluations [paper] - [blog post] - [website]
May 2023 Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks accepted at ACL 2023 [paper]
Apr 2023 replit-code-v1-3b announced at the Replit Developer Day and released opensource [X thread] - [video] - [HuggingFace model] - [GitHub repo]
Apr 2023 Measuring the Impact of Programming Language Distribution accepted at ICML 2023 -- I was the Principal Investigator [paper] - [code]
H2 2022 Invited talks on AI meets Source Code: status quo and outlooks [video] and events: [EPFL], [Synapse AI Symposium], [Berkeley AI Summit] & more
H2 2022 PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways submitted to the Journal of Machine Learning Research -- I worked on PaLM-Coder [paper] - [blog post]
Mar 2021 Language-Agnostic Representation Learning of Source Code from Structure and Context (AKA Code Transformer) accepted at ICLR 2021 [paper] - [demo] - [code]

🔦   Highlights

🎓   Education

👨‍💻   Experience

  • Head of Applied Research at Google X & Google Labs
    • Worked on Large Language Models and AI for Code (including PaLM and PaLM 2)
  • Research Scientist at Stanford University and at EPFL
    • Contributed to several projects (funded by IARPA, DARPA, Samsung, Google, Amazon, ...) with research on Deep Learning (GNNs, Transformers, Open Graph Benchmark, etc.), Recommender Systems, Crowdsourcing, and Data Science.
  • Intern at MIT Media Lab (w/ Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland), Yahoo Research (w/ Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates), and Google.
  • Co-founder of Sindice.com, the largest Semantic Web Search Engine (back in the days). The core technologies developed for Sindice evolved into:
    • a top-level Apache project, Any23
    • several contributions to Hadoop, Lucene and Solr
    • Siren, an investigative intelligence platform which secured $15M+ in funding -- kudos to my amazing ex-colleagues 👍

👨‍🏫   Teaching

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  1. replit/ReplitLM replit/ReplitLM Public

    Inference code and configs for the ReplitLM model family

    Python 926 80