Cambridge, United Kingdom

Botond Branyicskai-Nagy

ML @ Graphcore

I am interested in machine learning research, particularly structured deep learning, algorithmic reasoning, and causal inference.

Portrait of Botond Branyicskai-Nagy

Profile

I work on large-scale distributed training of LLMs at Graphcore. I’m also interested in programmatic representations. Previously, I did research on neural program synthesis with Prof. Mirco Musolesi in UCL’s Machine Intelligence Lab.

I did an MSc in Machine Learning at UCL and a BSc in Physics at Imperial College London. At Imperial, I worked with Dave Clements and later spent a summer researching causal discovery with Mark van der Wilk. I grew up in Budapest, Hungary.

Work & writing

Research, writing, and selected projects.

2024

ML@UCL

Projects and assignments undertaken during my master’s: COMP0086 Probabilistic and Unsupervised Learning (Gatsby Unit) Bayesian Model Selection Expectation-Maximi...

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2023

Evolution of Artificial Life

An agent-based study of optimisation in gene space, coevolution, and natural selection — BSc thesis with distinction.

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2022

Machine Learning for LHCb

As part of Physics Coursework at Imperial College London, I led the machine learning team analysing decay product distributions from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) expe...

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2022

Project Svarog: Solar Sail Mission at ICSS

Part of the orbital mechanics team at the Imperial College Space Society, I contributed to Project Svarog — a CubeSat with a solar sail set on a trajectory to interstellar space...

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Background

Experience

  1. Present

    Graduate Machine Learning Engineer

    Graphcore · Cambridge

  2. 2025

    ML Research Engineer Contract

    Ascentra Labs · London

    LLM integration, structured generation, and comparative model evaluation for a survey analysis product.

  3. 2024

    Postgraduate Researcher

    Machine Intelligence Lab · UCL

    Neural program synthesis and algorithmic reasoning with Prof. Mirco Musolesi.

  4. 2023

    Research Intern

    Imperial College London · Mark van der Wilk

    Causal discovery and Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models with Mark van der Wilk.

Education

  1. 2023—24

    MSc Machine Learning Distinction

    University College London

    Thesis: Hierarchical Bayesian Program Synthesis for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning.

  2. 2020—23

    BSc Physics with Theoretical Physics Honours

    Imperial College London

    Thesis: Evolution of Artificial Life: Investigating Optimisation in Gene Space.