How 3 engineers built a record-breaking supernova identification system with deep learning

It was summer 2017 when Cole, one of our Machine Learning Engineers, first started flying these words around the Dessa office. The team was discussing dream projects to work on within the field of deep learning, and a quick survey of the room confirmed our initial suspicions… to work on something space-related would be pretty freaking awesome! Luckily, we found ourselves in the right place at the right time. The company had recently started a program for employees to dedicate a portion of working hours to personal projects that would help us advance our machine learning knowledge. We knew this program would help advance our product, too.