Rupert W.

Rupert W. is a skilled researcher and engineer specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, currently employed at Together AI since January 2025. Rupert previously served as a Faculty Affiliate Researcher at the Vector Institute from January 2023 to December 2024, and as a Research Assistant and Course Instructor at the University of Toronto from September 2018 to November 2024. Rupert's master's thesis, titled "Linguistic Collapse: Neural Collapse in (Large) Language Models," was presented at NeurIPS 2024 under the supervision of Vardan Papyan. Prior experience includes a Machine Learning Internship at Cohere in 2022, focusing on embeddings, and a Software Development Engineer Internship at Amazon Web Services in 2020, working on AWS Serverless and Simple Queue Service. Rupert holds a Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from the University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Victoria University.