Victor Quach

AI Researcher

New York, New York, United States10 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • PhD in Machine Learning with extensive research experience.
  • Improved PyTorch performance by 16% during internship.
  • Led IT student society, enhancing tech skills for 100+ students.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and AI specialist with strong software development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchAlgorithmsPython (programming Language)Pytorch

Other Skills

High FrequencyPandas (Software)C++Web programmingWeb developmentStart-upsProject ManagementScrumSoftware DevelopmentScienceData MiningData AnalysisGitJavaJavaScript

Experience

10 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Hudson river trading

2 roles

Algorithm Developer

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • Quantitative Research
  • High Frequency
  • I trade stocks
Quantitative ResearchHigh FrequencyAlgorithms

Algorithm Developer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • Quantitative Research
Pandas (Software)Quantitative Research

Facebook

PhD Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2021Aug 2021 · 2 mos · New York, United States

  • Internship in the PyTorch Core Team.
  • Improved performance of the autograd engine by 16%.
  • Designed and developed an API for users to register saved tensor hooks allowing a tradeoff of O(n) memory usage to a O(1) memory usage at the cost of a 5x slowdown.
Python (Programming Language)PyTorchC++

Ibm

PhD Research Intern

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Developed a novel training scheme to improve generalizability of Transformers beyond the maximum length of their training data. Applications to question answering with long context.

Massachusetts institute of technology

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • TA for 6.86x "Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning" in its first iteration. 6.86x is an online class part of MITx's MicroMasters in Statistics and Data Science.
  • I improved the project component of the course: adding additional content, debugging, cleaning up the handout code, writing better solutions and building the automatic graders so they could scale to thousands of students.
  • Additionally, I designed and built two projects from their paper version to their usable online version: a collaborative filtering task using EM and a reinforcement learning problem with task descriptions in natural language.

Teaching Assistant

Feb 2019May 2019 · 3 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • I was one of the three TAs for 6.883 - "Modeling with machine learning: from algorithms to applications" for a class of a hundred grads and undergrads taught by Prof. Regina Barzilay and Prof. Tommi Jaakkola.

Mit computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory (csail)

2 roles

PhD Student

Sep 2017May 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • ML research

Research Assistant

Sep 2017May 2023 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • ML research

École normale supérieure

Research Intern

Apr 2017Aug 2017 · 4 mos · Paris Area, France

  • Deep Logic: Designed, implemented and benchmarked hierarchical neural architectures on logical reasoning tasks with PyTorch.
  • Experimented with hypernetworks in a meta-learning setting.

Theodo

Web developer

Jun 2016Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Région de Paris, France

  • Theodo is a Paris-based agile software development company. Customers include successful startup companies such as BlaBlaCar, ma-residence.fr and major global firms such as Elsan, Société Générale Safran, BNP Paribas IP, Auchan, Alain Afflelou.
  • Theodo specializes in building tailor-made, scalable web applications in record time, while challenging constantly the needs of its clients
  • A leading integrator of the Symfony2 framework as well as Angular.Js, Theodo has put up a team of over 60 high level engineers that offers an exceptional level of expertise.
  • Theodo follows these intangible principles to ensure the success of projects:
  • small teams of highly skilled experts, dedicated to your project
  • open-source web technologies for fast application development
  • the Theodo agile methodology, based on Lean, Scrum and DevOps
  • I was part of a team of five for a medical Web project using Symfony.
  • Everyday tasks included web development, helping the client with his business problems by challenging his vision and improving the team's workflow.
  • In just two months, I helped improve the application usage by 100%

Livementor

Teacher

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Région de Paris, France

  • Teaching mathematics to high school students
  • Preparing them to the competitive entrance examination for Grandes Écoles

Binet réseau

President of the IT Student Society

Dec 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr · École polytechnique

  • The Binet Réseau is the student association in charge of the network on Polytechnique's campus.
  • We maintain a dozen of Linux servers for our 1000+ fellow students and provide hosting and web service for them.
  • System administration tools include Debian, SaltStack, Tinc, Apache, Nginx, etc.
  • Web development is done using the most recent web frameworks such as Django, Angular, Ionic.
  • As President of the association, I was in charge of leading this team of 20 members and was especially involved in the recruitment process, communication, long-term planning and strategic decision-making.
  • I took the initiative to organize weekly training sessions addressing the newest technologies and tools for the benefit of 100+ students.
  • I also initiated a mentorship system to enable the beginners to learn from the most advanced students.
  • We ranked 1st as "Most attractive association to be part of" in Polytechnique, according to a 2016 survey.

Gendarmerie nationale

Officer cadet

Dec 2014Apr 2015 · 4 mos · France

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computer Science

Sep 2017May 2023

École Polytechnique

Master's degree — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2019

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

Mathematics and Physics

Jan 2009Jan 2014

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