Derek Pham

Derek Pham

Title: Research Engineer
Company: Snorkel AI
Bio

Derek Pham is a Research Engineer at Snorkel AI, working on benchmarks, evaluation, and synthetic data workflows for frontier model development. He previously built large-scale NLP systems in the data-as-a-service domain and holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University.

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Scaling Trust: Rubrics in Snorkel’s Quality Process

Snorkel’s “Trusted Scale” philosophy Welcome to Part 4 of Snorkel AI’s rubric series. In previous posts, we explored how rubrics enable structured evaluation (Part 1), the spectrum of rubric types and use cases (Part 2), and the science behind designing and validating them (Part 3). In this latest installment, we pull back the curtain on how Snorkel puts these principles…

October 16, 2025
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