Ben Peters - Researcher at INESC-ID

Ben Peters

Researcher at INESC-ID

Lisbon, Portugal

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Ben Peters is an NLP researcher and ML engineer with nine years of experience specializing in machine translation and multimodal speech-and-language models, currently a researcher at INESC-ID after a postdoc on the UTTER Project. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning/NLP from Instituto Superior Técnico and has published in top NLP and ML venues while teaching practical deep learning courses. Ben contributes to well-known open-source projects like OpenNMT-py, where he has fixed core NMT and PyTorch compatibility issues, reflecting strong debugging and model-engineering skills. His work spans morphologically-aware MT, noise-robust translation, and engineering for experimental psycholinguistics, combining linguistic insight with production-focused code. A Cascadian map enthusiast living in Lisbon, he brings a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to bridging text and speech research.

9 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

BA, Linguistics, BA, Linguistics at University of Washington

Master of Science, Language Science and Technology, 1,3 (German system), Master of Science, Language Science and Technology, 1,3 (German system) at Saarland University

PhD, Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing, PhD, Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing at Instituto Superior Técnico

Spanish, German, Turkish, Portuguese, English

Github Skills (11)

debugging10

machine-translation10

debug10

pytorch10

deep-learning10

neural-machine-translation10

python10

nlp9

language-model9

mle8

ml8

Programming languages (3)

TeXMLIRPython

Github contributions (5)

OpenNMT/OpenNMT-py

Jul 2017 - Jan 2019

Open Source Neural Machine Translation and (Large) Language Models in PyTorch

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & ML Engineer

Contributions:203 commits, 56 PRs, 220 comments in 1 year 7 months

Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the codebase related to neural machine translation and large language models in PyTorch. Their work included fixing Python3 compatibility issues and addressing dimension problems with MLP attention within the neural network model. They made changes to the core components of the model, as well as the translation files. These commits indicate they are proficient in debugging, model optimization, and working with neural network architectures.

pytorchdeep-learningmachine-translationtranslationneural-machine-translation

bpopeters/OpenNMT-py

Sep 2017 - Aug 2019

Open-Source Neural Machine Translation in PyTorch http://opennmt.net/

Contributions:444 commits, 1 PR, 316 pushes in 1 year 11 months

pytorchmachine-translationtranslationopennmtneural-machine-translation

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