Maxime Labonne
<p><strong>Maxime Labonne </strong>is the head of the post-training models department at <strong>Liquid AI</strong>. He holds a Ph.D. in machine learning from the Polytechnic Institute of Paris and is a certified Google Developer Expert in AI/ML.</p><p>Maxim has made significant contributions to the open-source community by creating educational materials, including the <strong>LLM Course</strong>, instructional guides on fine-tuning models, and tools such as <strong>LLM AutoEval</strong>. Under his leadership, advanced models like <strong>NeuralDaredevil</strong> have been developed.</p><p>Maxim is also the author of bestsellers <strong>“The LLM Engineer's Handbook”</strong> and <strong>“Practical Applications of Graph Neural Networks Using Python”</strong>, which have become essential reads for machine learning professionals.</p>