Maurice Weber is an AI researcher and Member of Technical Staff with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and engineering, currently at Microsoft AI after a research stint at Together AI. He completed a mathematics MSc with distinction and a PhD at ETH Zurich, where his work developed robustness guarantees across ML pipelines—covering data poisoning, semantic transformations, and distributional shift. Maurice is passionate about data quality’s role in large language models and has contributed to major open datasets like RedPajama-1T, reflecting a commitment to open-source AI. His background spans academic research, industry R&D, and full-stack development, giving him practical fluency in taking theoretical results toward deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Universität St.Gallen - Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mathematics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
The RedPajama-Data repository contains code for preparing large datasets for training large language models.
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