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Author: Silas Brack <silasbrack@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:06:59 +0200
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<h1>Silas Brack</h1>
<p class="subtitle"><a href="./assets/cv.pdf">CV</a> · <a href="https://github.com/silasbrack">GitHub</a> · <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/silasbrack/">LinkedIn</a></p>
<p>
- I'm an AI Research Engineer at <a href="https://teton.ai">Teton</a>,
- where we're building next-generation healthcare technology to support
- nurses and patients in hospitals and nursing homes. Our work leverages
- computer vision and deep learning across several cutting-edge research
- areas: 3D reconstruction, human mesh recovery, action recognition, and
- visual-language models.
+ I'm an AI Research Engineer at <a href="https://teton.ai">Teton</a>, where we're building next-generation healthcare technology to support nurses and patients in hospitals and nursing homes.
+ Our work leverages computer vision and deep learning across several cutting-edge research areas: 3D reconstruction, human mesh recovery, action recognition, and visual-language models.
+ A lot of my work revoves around taking ill-defined business problems, understanding what the essential constraints and requirements are, and using data and statistical models to solve these problems under the identified constraints.
</p>
<p>
- Previously, I spent over four years at Saxo Bank as an ML Engineer in the
- Predictive Modelling and AI team under Jeppe Reitz and Nicolas Palm Remy-Perez.
- I worked on various client-facing projects spanning NLP, representation
- learning, recommender systems, and traditional machine learning models.
+ Previously, I spent over four years at Saxo Bank as an ML Engineer in the Predictive Modelling and AI team under Jeppe Reitz and Nicolas Palm Remy-Perez.
+ I worked on various client-facing projects spanning NLP, representation learning, recommender systems, and traditional machine learning models.
</p>
<p>
- I hold a master's in Mathematical Modelling and Computation from the Technical
- University of Denmark. My <a href="./assets/thesis.pdf">thesis</a> was focused on implicit matrix algorithms for the
- Laplace approximation in Søren Hauberg's Cognitive Systems group at DTU Compute.
- My work in the group also led to a <a href="https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/da7ce04b3683b173691ecbb801f2690f-Abstract-Conference.html">publication at NeurIPS</a>
- based on applying the Laplace approximation
- to metric learning.
+ I hold a master's in Mathematical Modelling and Computation from the Technical University of Denmark.
+ My <a href="./assets/thesis.pdf">thesis</a> was focused on implicit matrix algorithms for the Laplace approximation in Søren Hauberg's Cognitive Systems group at DTU Compute.
+ My work in the group also led to a <a href="https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/da7ce04b3683b173691ecbb801f2690f-Abstract-Conference.html">publication at NeurIPS</a> based on applying the Laplace approximation to metric learning.
</p>
<p>
- My academic interests span machine learning, statistics, and applied
- mathematics—from deep learning and Bayesian inference to network science and
- forecasting. I particularly enjoy the intersection of theory and practice, and
- spend much of my time coding and solving mathematical problems. Beyond technical
- work, I'm passionate about science communication and how research intersects
- with society. Teaching and effectively communicating complex ideas is something
- I genuinely enjoy.
+ My academic interests are broad within machine learning, statistics: from deep learning and recommender engines to Bayesian inference to network science and forecasting.
+ I particularly enjoy the intersection of theory and practice, and spend much of my time coding and solving mathematical problems.
+ Beyond technical work, I'm passionate about science communication and how research intersects with society.
+ Teaching and effectively communicating complex ideas is something I quite enjoy.
</p>
<p>
- Outside work, I like reading about history and paleontology. I try to make the
- most of life through continuous learning, spending time in nature, and
- appreciating beauty wherever I see it. You'll often find me coding on side
- projects, reading, watching films, listening to music, or experimenting in the
- kitchen.
+ I like functional programming, minimalism, simplicity / essentialism, text-based formats, self-hosting, NixOS, and <em>both</em> vim and emacs :-)
+ I like people who are opinionated.
+ I like being surprised.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Outside work, I like reading about history and paleontology.
+ I try to make the most of life through continuous learning, spending time in nature, and appreciating beauty wherever I see it.
+ You'll often find me coding on side projects, reading, watching films, listening to music, or experimenting in the kitchen.
</p>
+ <h2>Posts</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="./posts/birthday.html">We’re really bad at exponentials</a></li>
+ </ul>
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