Rob Whelan

Speaker - Gridway AI

Key Contributions to Austin LangChain AIMUG: Nuclear power domain specialist at Gridway AI, focusing on fine-tuning embeddings for specialized technical domains. Notable Contributions: • Presented "Fine-tuning Embeddings for Nuclear Power" lightning talk • Demonstrated domain-specific embedding optimization techniques • Open-sourced nuclear-licensing-embeddings-768 model on Hugging Face • Created practical training methodologies for technical domain adaptation Technical Expertise: • Fine-tuning embeddings for domain-specific applications • Nuclear regulatory document processing and search optimization • PyTorch model training and deployment • Semantic search improvement for technical domains Open Source Contributions: • Published gridwayai/nuclear-licensing-embeddings-768 on Hugging Face • Shared training notebooks and methodologies • Contributed to Gridway AI SDK development