Nicole Fitzgerald

I am currently working on something new.

Most recently, I worked at Alpaca, a company I cofounded in 2022 with William Buchwalter. Alpaca was acquired by Captions in October 2024.

Previously, I was a graduate student at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Universite de Montreal) under the supervision of Laurent Charlin, where I was broadly interested in the empirical study of deep neural networks. In particular, my work studied the dynamics of learning at scale, with a focus on large language models.

Additionally, I have worked as a research scientist at MosaicML (2022) and a research engineer at Microsoft Research Montreal (2018-2021).

Once upon a time, my summers were spent riding in helicopters, planting trees, and roaming around northern Canada.