Oscar Moll
Data Systems and Applied ML Researcher
I’m a postoctoral researcher at the Data Systems Group at MIT CSAIL, working with Sam Madden and Michael Cafarella. I enjoy working on tough problems with great people.
I am currently in the job market looking to work on machine learning model development, especially language and vision-language models on impactful real-world deployments.
My expertise spans applied machine learning work during graduate school and data-systems work in industry prior to grad school. During my PhD, also here at the MIT Data Systems group, I focused on problems around the data needed for developing AI applications, such as the need for retrieval from large databases of video and images. Solutions I developed mixed algorithmic insights (eg. clever sampling techniques, human-in-the-loop interactive retrieval algorithms, supervised and semi-supervised learning techniques) with system-building and implementation work. To know more about my work, you can take a look at the selected publications below.
Before grad school, I worked as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services, on the Amazon Aurora DB team, specifically on its innovative cloud storage component.
In my spare time I enjoy hiking and sight seeing in New Hampshire and Maine with the MIT outing club, running along the Charles in Cambridge, and lately strength training the basic four lifts. I am originally from Cobán, a city in northern Guatemala. I am also a Li Po Chun United World College high-school alum, a Guatemalan science olympiad alum, and an alum of American School of Guatemala’s PBA scholarship program.