Christopher Krapu
bay area / north dakota
Currently working on internal AI tools @ NVIDIA.
I received my graduate training in statistics and engineering at Duke University under Mark Borsuk, graduating in 2020. I was awarded full-funding fellowships by NASA (NESSF, 2017) and the NSF (IGERT, 2014) with additional support from Amazon and NVIDIA. My research focused on developing graphical models for high-dimensional environmental data, with applications in engineering and spatial statistics.
Professional experience
- I spent 2014-2020 in grad school. I loved grad school so much that I pushed back my defense for a year just so I could use all of my funding and focus on my research.
- From 2020-2022, I was a scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, mostly focused on applied Bayesian methods and machine learning.
- In 2022, I got my first tech job at Realtor.com, working on the recommendations team.
- I moved to NVIDIA in 2024, working as an AI engineer within the Sales Operations organization.
Personal trivia
- I was hard of hearing in my early life, and spent most of my childhood in speech therapy.
- I started college at Valley City State University and later studied at Macalester College for physics.
- My family name is of Finnish origin. My great-grandfather emigrated from Finland around 1890.
- You can email me using the format of first initial followed by last name (no punctuation) at gmail