Orion Weller
Graduate Research Assistant
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOrion Weller is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins and a research intern at Meta with eight years of experience in applied and foundational NLP and large language model research. He has held research roles at Google DeepMind, the Allen Institute for AI, Apple, and Samaya AI, and co-authored papers at EMNLP, ACL and EACL. His work spans promptable LLMs, information extraction for Semantic Scholar, and socially impactful NLP research including studies on drug abuse and suicide prevention. Combining a 4.0 BS in Computer Science and Statistics with ongoing PhD work, he routinely bridges rigorous academic evaluation and product-focused ML development alongside leading research teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Statistics, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Statistics, 4.0 at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (141)
similarity-search10
transformers10
multilabel-classification10
hugo-theme10
hugo10
benchmark10
language-model10
neural-search10
python10
sentence10
semantic-search10
flax10
deep-learning10
bug-reporting10
embedding10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
orionweller/WebsiteBuilder
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:150 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
academicsbeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-themebeautiful-jekyll-theme
orionw/rJokesData
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
A large scale Humor Dataset, containing more than 550k rated English jokes
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 8 months
datasethumor-detectionlreclrec2020machine-learning
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