Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Spara

Michael Pieper

Michael Pieper is a machine learning engineer whose work bridges deep learning research and real-world AI systems. He started his AI career at Mila (Yoshua Bengio’s lab) on representation learning, advised AI startups, and was part of the runner-up team in the NeurIPS 2017 Alexa Prize. He’s since built production ML across wearables (LG), ad auctions and bidding (Rokt), and 0→1 GenAI for high-risk claims detection (EvolutionIQ), bringing research rigor to scalable products.