Leonid Shamis

Staff Research Engineer

Leonid Shamis has extensive experience in engineering and research roles within the technology sector. Starting as a Graduate Intern at Intel Corporation, Leonid progressed to positions including Graduate Research Assistant at the University of California, Davis, and Senior Software Engineer at drive.ai, focusing on motion planning. Subsequent roles included Principal Engineer at Third Wave Automation and Director of Engineering at the same company, overseeing the development of scalable systems for autonomous forklifts. At Meta, Leonid served as Research Engineering Manager and Staff Research Engineer, where contributions included leading the Chameleon multi-modal foundation model project and developing the ALMA alignment method for large language models. Leonid's educational background includes both a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

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