Andrew Naylor-Cho

ML Systems Engineer | HPC AI Inference @ NERSC (Berkeley Lab)

Oakland, California, United States

About

I’m passionate about building ML infrastructure that makes AI workloads fast, reliable, and easy to use—because AI is transforming productivity and accelerating progress. At NERSC, I build AI inference systems across a supercomputer, improving serving scalability, performance, and observability. My work spans deployment tooling, monitoring and debugging, and partnering with platform teams and users to make complex workflows reliable and high-performing.

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Building and scaling AI inference infrastructure on HPC systems at NERSC, while partnering with researchers and developers to deliver reliable, high-performing workflows.

  • The University of Sheffield (5 yrs)
    • Research Assistant
      Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 · 6 mos

      Developed and streamlined Jupyter-based analysis workflows for dark matter detector data, improving usability and maintainability while mentoring a PhD student.

    • PhD Student
      Oct 2017 - Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      Built and maintained scientific software and data pipelines in a large collaboration, spanning development, testing, documentation, and user enablement.

  • Visiting Research Affiliate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 · 6 mos

    Automated Python workflows for data collection and analysis, improving reliability and reducing manual effort.

  • Data Science Intern at Berkeley Lab
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 · 6 mos

    Built and evaluated a CNN-based particle reconstruction workflow and benchmarked end-to-end performance on NERSC systems.