David Melis
Assistant Professor at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Melis is an Assistant Professor and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in structured-data ML, interpretability, and optimal transport for NLP, speech, and image tasks. He completed a PhD at MIT/CSAIL and has held research roles at Microsoft and IBM, bringing both academic rigor and industry-focused problem solving to production-adjacent research. His work blends theoretical tools—especially optimal transport—with practical models for trees, sequences, and graphs to improve transparency and performance in language and speech systems. Based in Cambridge, he combines strong mathematical training (MS from NYU, BSc from ITAM) with a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentoring, and a knack for translating abstract distances into tangible improvements in real-world ML applications.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Mathematics, GPA 3.975, Master of Science (MS), Mathematics, GPA 3.975 at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics, Grade 9.74/10, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics, Grade 9.74/10 at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de MéxicoLancaster School
English, Spanish, Italian, French
Github Skills (17)
python10
data-science10
statistics10
machine-learning10
lottery10
scikit-learn10
data-analysis10
transport9
density-estimation9
pytorch7
recurrent-neural-networks6
probability6
neural-network4
java2
spring2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dmelis/robust_interpret
May 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
dmelis/otalign
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment of Embeddings
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
embeddingswassersteinmachine-learningalignmentgromov-wasserstein
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