Nick Locascio
AI Engineer, Founder, Author.
Member of Technical Staff at DoorDash, working on Gen AI & Voice AI.
Co-founded Booth AI, a Y-Combinator backed startup building generative AI for ecommerce product imagery.
Director of Engineering at Standard Cognition. Joined as employee #7, helped scale to unicorn status. Led ML teams and landed 10+ models in production for autonomous retail.
Previously: Deep Learning Consultant at Symantec. ML Engineer at Pinterest (Recommendations). Software Engineer at Fitbit (iOS).
Graduate Researcher at MIT. Founded and taught 6.S191: Intro to Deep Learning, MIT's first course on deep learning, with sponsorship from Google Brain, NVIDIA, Amazon, and IBM Watson.
Author of Fundamentals of Deep Learning (O'Reilly).
Publications: Neural Generation of Regular Expressions (EMNLP 2016, first author). High-Risk Breast Lesions ML Model (Radiology 2017).
I also write about biohacking.