Brett Naul

Brett Naul began their career in 2009 as a Software Developer at Knewton. Brett then moved to University of California, Berkeley in 2015, where they worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2017, they joined Sidewalk Labs as a Machine Learning Engineer. Finally, in 2019, they became a Founding Engineer at Replica, where they scaled single-threaded Python travel simulation code to run on thousands of cores and produced the first nationwide activity-based travel simulation, representing over a billion activities per day. Brett also saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in compute costs through optimizations to scientific computing simulation code and distributed systems architecture.

Brett Naul completed their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University in 2015. Brett also obtained a Master of Science (M.S.) in Statistics from Stanford University in 2014 and a Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics from Stanford University in 2008.