Michele Merler
Principal Research Scientist, IBM Research AI at IBM TJ Watson Research Center
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichele Merler is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research AI in New York with 15 years of experience building and leading research in deep learning, computer vision, multimodal analytics and NLP. He currently drives CodeLLM development—covering data preparation, training, model merging and evaluation—and builds interpretable models for ALS detection and monitoring. His work spans neural architecture search, knowledge distillation and large-scale video/image indexing, with a long history of sports video analytics, action recognition and medical imaging applications. A Columbia PhD who cut his teeth on multi-modal indexing of unstructured videos, Michele blends rigorous academic grounding with hands-on systems research at scale. Colleagues know him for bridging applied ML and interpretable modeling, often tackling domain-specific evaluation challenges that reveal real-world impact beyond benchmark scores.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS and MS, Tecommunications Engineering, BS and MS, Tecommunications Engineering at Università di TrentoUniversity of California, San DiegoPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, Italian
Github Skills (4)
image10
container9
containerization8
docker2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mmerler/osgroup
Feb 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:37 commits in 2 months
mmerler/site
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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