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Maciej Szankin

Principal Solutions Architect, GenAI

SiMa.ai

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Maciej Szankin is a Principal Solutions Architect for Generative AI at SiMa.ai, where he leads the development of LLM and VLM-based solutions for edge applications in robotics, automotive, and drones. Since joining SiMa in January 2025, his work has focused on enabling low-latency, high-efficiency GenAI on custom hardware.

Prior to SiMa, Maciej conducted research at Intel Labs, specializing in large language models and hardware-aware AutoML. He is also a PhD candidate, working on thermal image processing and neural network architecture optimization for real-time inference on resource-constrained devices. With over 30 peer-reviewed publications, his expertise spans generative AI, multi-objective optimization, distributed ML, model compression, and neural architecture search.