An AI researcher and entrepreneur who most recently co-founded Alpaca in August 2022, an AI-powered design tools company that was acquired by Captions in October 2024.
Prior to Alpaca, Fitzgerald served as a research scientist at MosaicML in 2022 and as a research engineer at Microsoft Research Montreal from 2018 to 2021. Her earlier experience includes graduate studies at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) at Université de Montréal, where she focused on the empirical study of deep neural networks, particularly the dynamics of learning at scale and large language models.