Ben Wiener
Staff Data Scientist
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Wiener is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience who leverages a PhD in physics to build production-ready machine learning, optimization, and robotics solutions for security and research settings. Based in Arlington, MA, he has progressed through technical roles at Vectra AI from Data Scientist to Staff Data Scientist, applying modeling and deployment expertise to threat detection at scale. His background includes academic research at Brown and CERN, where he developed strong computational and experimental instincts that inform pragmatic, data-driven product work. Also consulting through Perciplex, he blends deep technical rigor with hands-on software development experience across startups and academia. Notably comfortable translating complex physics problems into robust code, he thrives on learning new techniques and solving high-impact, hard engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Brown UniversityBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Brandeis University
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Github Skills (66)
penetration-testing10
python10
security10
polars10
threaded10
dataframes10
flappy-bird-clone10
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
dataframe10
aws10
aws-security9
rust9
q-learning9
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ishmandoo/MassSpecPlot
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
vectra-ai-research/pyspark-style-guide
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Our style guide for writing readable and maintainable PySpark code.
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
fairness-mlreadabledeep-learningstyle-guidestyleguide
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