Sebastian Raschka
LLM research engineer; author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
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- Sebastian Raschka is an LLM research engineer and the author of books on machine learning, including Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).
- He was a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then a senior engineer at Lightning AI.
- He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter about LLM research and architectures.
Key facts
- Now
- LLM research engineer and author (as of November 2026)1
- Before
- Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; senior engineer, Lightning AI1
- Book
- Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)2
- Writes
- Ahead of AI, a newsletter on LLM research1
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