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Smarter ML: Infra, Transformers & Optimization Hacks

Name: Smarter ML: Infra, Transformers & Optimization Hacks
Start: 2025-06-23T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-23T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Goodwin Procter

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Smarter ML: Infra, Transformers & Optimization Hacks

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Join us at our next NYC meetup for an evening of real talk focused on infrastructure scaling, rethinking attention, and cost-efficient pipeline design.

Whether you're scaling foundation models, fine-tuning inference costs, or just trying to make your pipelines less brittle—this one’s for you.
Come network with fellow ML engineers, researchers, and infra builders over good food and smarter systems thinking.

🧠 Featuring:

Maxim Alt, Senior Director, AI Software

AI Systems Optimizations
Maxim Alt is currently working in a Stealth AI Infra Startup. A 30-year veteran of high-performance computing. He founded several tech start-ups in the Bay area and served as SVP of AI & HPC Technology at Core Scientific, after an 18-year engineering career at Intel. Max has authored dozens of research papers on advanced topics in power, performance and efficiency optimization, resource provisioning and prediction, and holds 10 patents for large scale HPC workflows. Max holds a B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and a M.Sc. in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Rekha Singhal, Head of Research @ Tata Consultancy Services

GenAI from PoC to Production
Dr. Rekha Singhal is Head of Research at TCS PacePort New York and leads the Computing Systems Research area at TCS Research. An ACM Senior Member with 70+ patents and 100+ publications, she focuses on accelerating modern and agentic-AI applications across heterogeneous multi-cloud environments. Rekha holds M.Tech. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and was a visiting researcher at Stanford.
Jacob Buckman, Co-founder and CEO @Manifest AI

Rethinking Attention
Jacob Buckman is Founder & CEO of Manifest AI. They are on a mission to train a neural network to model all human output. Jacob brings years of deep learning research from institutions like OpenAI, GoogleBrain and Mila. Jacob holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from McGill and multiple degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.