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Bastiaan Quast
Member #546FounderL1Founder & CEO, Valiq Security
local AI in the browser, a mini Go inference engine, compiled to WASM
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About
Bastiaan Quast is the founder and CEO of Valiq Security, a company he started in 2024 that trains foundation models from scratch. He holds a PhD in development economics from The Graduate Institute, Geneva, worked as an economist at the ITU, and wrote the R packages rnn and decompr. Bastiaan is now building llama.go, a small Go inference engine compiled to WASM that runs AI models in the browser.
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Experience
training foundation models from scratch
Business Owner · ValiQ Security
Expert Group: World Economic Survey · ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
Machine Learning Engineer · Billtrust
Project Coordinator · United Nations
Economist (consultant) · United Nations
Economist Fellow · Internet Society
Research Assistant · Geneva Graduate Institute
Research Consultant · Geneva Graduate Institute
Education
Geneva Graduate Institute
University of Geneva
Ipade Business School
University of St.Gallen
University of Groningen
GL
Goese Lyceum
St George's, University of London (for Students and Alumni)
