August Wester
Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Veo Technologies
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolAugust Wester is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher based in Copenhagen with 11 years of engineering experience and a formal background in computer science and a master’s in machine learning. He focuses on deep learning research and engineering, with particular interest in self-supervised learning, causal inference, and biologically inspired algorithms, and currently leads ML research efforts at Veo Technologies. August blends academic vigilance—regularly reading and implementing recent papers—with practical product experience from prior roles as an iOS engineer at Lunar and JP/Politikens Hus. He publishes in-depth blog posts and reproducible paper implementations on sigmoidprime.com, signaling a commitment to transparent, reusable research. Colleagues describe him as the kind of researcher who bridges cutting-edge theory and production-ready systems, often spotting biologically motivated angles others miss.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityMaster's degree Machine learning, Master's degree Machine learning at IT-Universitetet i København
Danish, English
Github Skills (53)
self-attention10
generative-model10
arxiv10
word-embeddings9
drug-discovery8
katex8
latex8
semantic-search8
search-engine8
pytorch8
machine-learning7
natural-language-processing7
deep-learning7
graph-convolutional-networks7
graph-neural-network7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
augustwester/transformer-xl
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
A lightweight PyTorch implementation of the Transformer-XL architecture proposed by Dai et al. (2019)
Contributions:80 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 months
pytorchtransformertransformer-xlxlnetcross-attention
augustwester/gflownet
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
A PyTorch implementation of a Generative Flow Network (GFlowNet) proposed by Bengio et al. (2021)
Contributions:62 commits, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
pytorchgenerative-modelgflownetdrug-discoverygraph-sampling
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