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DMITRY DUEV
staff engineer · ai infra · recovering astronomer
I build the tools that make AI research go faster. Before that, I spent a decade tracking spacecraft with radio telescopes, shooting lasers into space, and teaching AI to do astronomy.
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- NAME
- Dmitry “Dima” Duev
- CLASS
- Staff Engineer @ CoreWeave
- QUEST
- Leading the W&B SDK team
- BASE
- California
- ORIGIN
- PhD, Radio Astronomy
- SPELLS
- Go · Rust · Python
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WORLD 4
CoreWeave (via Weights & Biases). AI infra and developer tools; I lead the W&B SDK team.
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Caltech. AI for sky surveys, plus lasers and robotic telescopes.
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JIVE, Netherlands. Tracked deep-space missions with radio interferometry.
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Moscow State University. Physics, then a PhD in radio astronomy.
Some cool stuff I’ve built:
- LEETTerminal UI for your W&B runs.
- wandb-coreThe Go engine inside the W&B SDK.
- System metricsGPU/TPU monitoring in Go and Rust.
- TailsFound the first comet discovered with AI.
- DeepStreaksHunts near-Earth asteroids.
- braaiTells real cosmic events from bogus ones.
- KowalskiSky-survey archive and alert broker.
- FritzData platform for the Zwicky Transient Facility.
| RANK | SCORE | UNIT |
|---|---|---|
| 1ST | 13,709 | citationsGoogle Scholar · 13 Nov 2026 |
| 2ND | 200+ | publicationsCV · Sep 2026 |
| 3RD | 113 | papers cited 10+ timesGoogle Scholar · 13 Nov 2026 |
| 4TH | 100+ | asteroids discoveredCV · Sep 2026 |
| 5TH | 60+ | talks, incl. an ICML keynoteCV · Sep 2026 |
| 6TH | 55 | h-indexGoogle Scholar · 13 Nov 2026 |
| 7TH | 1 | comet found with AICV · Sep 2026 |