Dennis Torres

Dennis Torres graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. After which, he went on to become a full-stack engineer working on diet and excercise applications for clients such as Men's Health. In 2015, Dennis Torres co-founded Blrrt, a goofy real-time voice messaging platform for web and mobile devices with speech recognition. At the same time, Dennis Torres served as technical lead for a Silverstreet Technologies, a fintech platform dedicated to helping people around the world without access to traditional banking services.

In 2018, Dennis Torres went on to combine his expertise in full-stack engineering, natural language processing, and diet, to develop machine learning models/pipelines in the food and grocery domain. He was an early adopter of using Transformer models — now known as Large Language Models — by translating human speech to machine interpretable code.

Dennis Torres now enjoys his time at Spear AI applying artificial intelligence to the maritime domain. Such as handling large-scale acoustic datasets and acoustic object detect/classification algorithms. Spear AI's pioneering work extends beyond acoustics and into wargaming with multiagent reinforcement learning and much more.When Dennis is not at his keyboard, you can find him listening to audio books, weight lifting at the gym, or hanging out with his sons.