David Tompkins

I am a hands-on researcher and engineer with extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems and diverse applications. I have led teams of many sizes from small groups to mid-size organizations spanning multiple geographies.

My current research interests include systems for large scale foundation model training and inference; optimization, compression, distillation, and low-rank adaptation for on-device models; coding harnesses; and on-device coding model specialization.

I currently lead compute and data infrastructure for Adobe Research in support of large-scale AI research projects, I lead our on-device model initiative, and I also run the Research Engineering and Design Lab for Adobe Research, which spans San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Utah, and New York.