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David Ramón Prados

Staff Software Engineer - Deep Learning Performance

Work experience

2023/07Present

Staff Software Engineer - Deep Learning Performance

Untether AI - Toronto, ON
  • Contributed to the HW design of the second and third generation chips.
  • Managed a team of seven to develop and deploy different neural networks on the Untether's floating point inference accelerator card.
2021/092023/07

Deep Learning Engineer

Untether AI - Toronto, ON
  • Designed integer versions of common ML layers.
  • Implemented new integer quantization techniques that combined quantization aware training and sequential knowledge distillation.
  • Architected an end to end python application to quantize, compile, and execute neural networks on the first generation chip.
  • Developed convolutional kernels tailored to Untether's parallel architecture.
  • Coordinated the internship program by helping hiring and training two students per term.
2020/042021/09

Support Researcher

Huawei R&D Laboratory - Waterloo, ON
  • Contributed to the development of a Remote Differential Compression method based on Shannon Entropy,  Jaccard Similarity, and HyperLogLog.
  • Developed a benchmarking framework on Go to compare our invention against popular algorithms such as DEFLATE, RSYNC, CDC, and others.
  • Listed as inventor in the Jaccard RDC High-Value Patent application.

CO-Op EXPERIENCE

2019/082019/12

Systems Engineer - Advanced Research and Collaboration

Christie Digital Systems - Waterloo ON
2018/052019/05

Research and Development Engineer - Uncooled Infrared

Teledyne DALSA - Waterloo ON
2017/012017/12

Automated Tools Developer - QA Engineering

SAP - Waterloo, ON

Education

2016/082021/05

B.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering - Artificial Intelligence

University of Waterloo
  • Summa Cum Laude / Dean's Honors List.

NOTABLE Projects

2020/082021/04

ChexScan - Capstone Project

University of Waterloo
  • Created a machine learning model for disease screening of chest X-Rays.
  • Finished first place for BioMed category and submitted results to EMBC 2021.