Max Shad
Senior Director, AI/ML Research Engineering
I lead AI/ML research engineering and AI infrastructure at the Kempner Institute at Harvard. My teams build multimodal foundation models from scratch, along with the platforms, workflows, and tools that researchers use on our AI cluster.
News
All news- The Kempner AI cluster again ranked third among US academic supercomputers on the TOP500.
- Moderated the panel Generative & Agentic AI in Research at the RC Summit, Harvard University.
- Co-authored the book Research Data that Can Be Trusted, published in SpringerBriefs in Computer Science.
- Moderated the panel Challenges in AI Facilitation at the RC Summit, Harvard University.
Blog
All posts- We Made Research Faster. Why Are We Surprised It's Moving Faster?
We need to redesign peer review for abundance.
- Comparing Nvidia Data Center GPUs
Measured compute, memory bandwidth, and training throughput on four Nvidia GPUs, and what the differences mean in practice.