Vasily Ilin
Member Of Technical Staff at UW Math AI lab
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVasily Ilin is a director and co-founder of the UW Math AI Lab, blending deep academic training in mathematics (PhD ongoing) and computer science with eight years of hands-on ML and data engineering experience. He has driven production improvements and research impact at Google and YouTube—optimizing large-scale models and CDNs, and delivering a Slides2Video prompt optimization with high empirical performance—while mentoring and managing large student-faculty teams at UW. His background spans practical engineering (distributed pipelines, telemetry-driven features) and rigorous research (autoformalization, numerical simulation), and he has a track record of converting theoretical ideas into deployable systems. Based in Seattle, he combines leadership of a 60+ person lab with frequent cross-team collaboration and public-facing research communication, including multiple invited talks and notable acknowledgements within Google. An understated strength is his ability to operate both as a productive individual contributor in high-stakes industry internships and as an organizer who scales student research programs.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at University of WashingtonMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Boston University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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95reached
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Github Skills (135)
programming-language10
ode10
stochastic10
statistics10
matlab10
julialang10
systems-biology10
science10
julia10
math-library10
biology10
numerical10
dsl10
ssa10
scientific-machine-learning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Vilin97/GradientFlows.jl
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:33 PRs, 312 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 6 months
Vilin97/VasBlog
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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