Lucas Sangdae Nam
AI Research Engineer @ VESSL AI | UC Berkeley | ex-Intel
AI Research Engineer who can GTM. Currently an AI Engineer at VESSL AI 🚀. I’m a generalist across the AI research field — I enjoy going deep wherever the problem takes me.
Research & Engineering topics I’ve worked on:
- Training & Optimization — Distributed training systems for object detection, model compression with federated learning
- LLM — Interpretability, Mixture of Experts, serving optimization
- AI Infrastructure — LLM serving backends, AI platform engineering
- AI for X — Education, biology/protein
- Recently — VLA finetuning
I love experiencing the 0 → 1 → 100 journey in AI startups, especially in San Francisco. Quite interested in the GTM side of things here.
Studied at UC Berkeley as a Master of Development Engineering (AI for Social). Go Bears! 🐻
Outside of work, I love workouts that AI can’t do — CrossFit, Hyrox, and running.
Disclaimer: All opinions and content are my own and do not reflect my employer.