Adrian Benton
Senior Research Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAdrian Benton is a Senior Research Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience building ML and NLP systems informed by a PhD from Johns Hopkins. His work spans research and production: from thesis-era user representation models for social media to deploying research-grade language and forecasting models at Bloomberg and Google. He combines deep academic grounding—visible on his Google Scholar profile—with practical engineering across large-scale data pipelines and information extraction systems. Earlier roles at Penn and Wharton show long-standing expertise in social media analytics, pharmacoepidemiology text mining, and applied recommendation research. Based in New York, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production problems and a practitioner’s focus on measurable real‑world impact. Colleagues will notice his blend of NLP research, systems engineering, and domain breadth that moves ideas from papers into deployed services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringMSE Computer Science, MSE Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
German, English
Github Skills (15)
weighted9
correlation9
tweet6
twitter-api6
python5
data-augmentation5
twitter5
social-media5
machine-learning4
labeling3
data-science3
training-data3
snorkel2
weak-supervision2
ai2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bellecarrell/twitter_brand
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
In developing a brand on Twitter (and social media in general), how does what you say and how you say it correspond to positive results (more followers, for example)?
Contributions:15 PRs, 168 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
jobsearchdevelopingbrandtwitter-apisocial-media
abenton/wgcca
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pythonpython-implementationcanonical-correlation-analysiscorrelationcorrelation-analysis
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