Andres Felipe Cruz Salinas

I am a Researcher passionate about Artificial Intelligence Research and Engineering. I'm broadly interested on improving sample/training efficiency of unsupervised representation learning models, with a strong focus on NLP. I hold a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Experience

Cohere - Member of Technical Staff

April 2024 - Present

I currently focus on base models pre-training.

Aleph Alpha GmbH - Senior Researcher

April 2022 - April 2024

Conducted research on large-scale language models and retrieval augmented models. Core contributor to infrastructure for training and finetuning.

Microsoft - Research Engineer

Oct 2017 - March 2022

I worked on Microsoft's digital assistant (formely Cortana) developing scalable backend infrastructure.
I worked on cross-lingual natural language and speech technologies at Azure's cognitive services research group, with a focus on highly multilingual and sparse models, large scale distributed training, distillation, and training efficiency.
I was part of the ZCode project, an axis of the larger integrative AI strategy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-zcode/

Experience

Cohere - Member of Technical Staff

Aleph Alpha GmbH - Senior Researcher

Microsoft - Research Engineer

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