
Sub 20 Minutes for 5K, on the Second Try
I missed sub 20 for 5K in the August heat, kept training, and ran 19:53 in an ordinary Thursday workout in Milan, eighteen months after my first run.
I'm the co-founder and CTO of PiktID, where we build GenAI tools for image editing at scale. Our two products are Studio, an image-editing platform with 300K+ users, and On-Model, a fashion e-commerce SaaS used by 50+ brands. My PhD is in Deep Learning for Communications Engineering, with publications at NeurIPS and in IEEE Transactions. Day-to-day I own the full pipeline: research, model development, backend and API design, cloud infrastructure, and the product on top.

Fashion visuals at scale with AI
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Published at NeurIPS 2024: a novel approach combining f-divergence with data derangements for tighter mutual information bounds.
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I missed sub 20 for 5K in the August heat, kept training, and ran 19:53 in an ordinary Thursday workout in Milan, eighteen months after my first run.

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