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Engineer

Xander Dunn

Periodic LabsMember of Technical Staff

Dunn builds the training infrastructure behind ambitious AI systems. After scaling distributed transformer training across thousands of accelerators,[1] he joined Periodic Labs to build an AI scientist that can propose and run physical-science experiments.[2]

Career & education

Current role
2025-present
Member of Technical Staff
Previously
2023-2024
Member of Technical Staff
2021-2023
Engineering Manager
Education

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

References

  1. Xander Dunn’s engineering workxander.ai

    Dunn describes building distributed training infrastructure and pretraining Transformer models across 8,000 GPUs and Trainium accelerators.

  2. Periodic Labs’ AI scientists and autonomous laboratoriesperiodic.com

    Periodic Labs describes how its AI scientists and automated laboratories are designed to propose ideas, run physical experiments, and learn from the results.

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Reviewed August 9, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.

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