Benjamin Biggs
Founding Engineer at Heronic Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Biggs is a Founding Engineer and PhD-trained hardware researcher with eight years of experience building low-latency FPGA and ASIC-oriented solutions for ML and market-data systems. His work spans dynamic DNN acceleration, hardware toolflow automation, and RTL verification, combining contributions at Jump Trading and Arm with a PhD at Imperial College where his ATHEENA toolflow earned FCCM recognition. He brings practical system-building experience from a year at Dstl and robotics ROS integration for ML research, and is fluent in SystemVerilog, Python and hardware co-simulation workflows. A natural organiser who led a 17-person student society, he pairs rigorous academic methods with product-minded prototyping—often optimizing for extreme latency and resource constraints that typical ML engineers don’t encounter.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College London
Github Skills (16)
verification8
verilog8
fpga8
vhdl8
python7
uvm7
pytorch7
cocotb6
streaming5
architecture5
accelerator4
tensorflow4
deep-learning3
hardware-acceleration3
version-control1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
biggsbenjamin/ATHEENA
Apr 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 1 month
biggsbenjamin/earlyexitnet
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Pytorch-based early exit network inspired by branchynet
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 11 months
pytorch
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