Iulian Serban
Senior Director Of R&D at Korbit AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIulian Serban is a Senior Director of R&D and former founder-CEO who builds revenue-generating GenAI products from research prototypes to market-ready systems. With a PhD from Mila under Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, he has published 40+ papers, co-authored two books, and led teams that deployed conversational AI to thousands of homes and an AI Teacher that upskilled 20,000+ learners pre-ChatGPT. At Korbit he raised $15M, created 50 jobs, supervised multiple Masters/PhDs, and shipped a code-reviewer that analyzed 100,000+ pull requests and reached ~$500K ARR with 110% NRR. His background spans math, software engineering, QA-focused contributions to libraries like Theano, and practical ML work on data pipelines and large-scale NLP systems. Known for turning experimental research into defensible products, he blends deep technical rigor with operator-level experience in growth and product pivots.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning at Université de MontréalBachelor Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor Mathematics and Statistics at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenMathematics Physics Chemistry and Development of Technology, Mathematics Physics Chemistry and Development of Technology at High School of Natural Sciences, KøgeUniversity College London
English, Danish, Romanian, French
Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
pep10
machine-learning10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
python10
fuel10
theano10
test-automation10
testing10
gradient9
data-preprocessing9
hdf8
mlp7
numpy7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Theano/Theano
Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
Theano was a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. It is being continued as PyTensor: www.github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:41 commits, 8 PRs, 38 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Iulian's commits primarily focus on adding, modifying, and fixing tests within the Theano repository. Their work involved moving test files, adding documentation to existing classes, and fixing documentation examples. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing tests related to gradients and also implemented and tested code fixes, particularly for concatenation and stack trace related bugs.
mathematical-expressionsmultidimensional-arrayspymcpythontheano
lisa-lab/pylearn2
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Warning: This project does not have any current developer. See bellow.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
Contributions summary:Iulian primarily contributed to improving the code quality and maintainability of the repository. Their commits focused on fixing PEP8 formatting issues across multiple Python files, including core modules and test files. Additionally, they addressed a bug related to FlattenerLayer and implemented tests, ensuring consistent behavior and correctness. They also removed test_mlp.py from the pep8 whitelist, which further indicates quality assurance efforts.
javascripttypescript
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