Dillon Laird

Dillon Laird

I currently work at LandingAI as a Machine Learning Engineer
focusing on visual reasoning and agentic frameworks.

2017 –
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LandingAI
  • Led development of VisionAgent, an agentic framework for generating and executing visual AI pipelines (detection, segmentation, OCR, counting) from natural language prompts. A highly iterative PoC built in the early days of agents.
  • Co-created Data-Centric AI methodology with Andrew Ng and Ivan Zhou; helped develop the core concepts and integrated them into our LandingLens platform where they were adopted by enterprise customers.
  • Built and scaled the machine learning engineering team from day-one to 11 SWE/MLEs; owned hiring, technical direction, and core ML modeling and infrastructure for LandingLens.
2016 – 2019
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Stanford
2015 – 2016
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PitchBook
  • Built company search and similarity systems using distributed word and entity embeddings.
  • Developed CRF-based information extraction pipelines for private company news.
2014 – 2015
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Society Consulting
  • Developed integer linear programming software for supply chain optimization.
2010 – 2014
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University of Washington

Publications

MURA: Large Dataset for Abnormality Detection in Musculoskeletal Radiographs
arXiv 2017
P Rajpurkar, J Irvin, A Bagul, D Ding, T Duan, H Mehta, B Yang, K Zhu, D Laird, R. L. Ball, C Langlotz, K Shpanskaya, M. P. Lungren, A. Y. Ng
Stochastic Variational Inference for Hidden Markov Models
NeurIPS 2014
N. J. Foti, J Xu, D Laird, E. B. Fox

Selected Projects

Vision Agent
February 2024
D Laird, Y Cao, S Jagadeesan, H. N. Phan, A. Y. Ng
Data-Centric AI Competition
August 2021
A. Y. Ng, D Laird, L He
Deep Q-Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks
December 2016
C Chen, V Ying, D Laird
Using satellite imagery to predict health
June 2017
J Irvin, D Laird, P Rajpurkar
Autoregressive Attention for Parallel Sequence Modeling
March 2017
D Laird, J Irvin