Benjamin Clavié
Research at Mixedbread
Musashino, Japan
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Top SchoolBenjamin Clavié is an AI researcher and NLP engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping language-driven products and R&D initiatives across startups, consultancies, and academia. Based in Musashino, Japan, he has led machine learning teams and built retrieval-augmented LLM applications and production NLP systems for clients and legal-tech platforms, blending research rigor from an MScR in Artificial Intelligence with practical delivery. His background spans roles from Lead Data Scientist and Machine Learning Lead to research-and-teaching at the University of Edinburgh, giving him a strong bridge between experimental methods and production engineering. Colleagues value his ability to translate cutting-edge LLM techniques into consultative, client-focused solutions—often surfacing pragmatic trade-offs that aren’t obvious from experimental papers alone.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science by Research (MScR), Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science by Research (MScR), Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghComputing, Computing at Edinburgh Napier University
French, English
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Github Skills (88)
self-attention10
nlp10
predict10
retrieval10
python-modules10
documentation-generator10
pypi10
octopus10
llm10
sts10
prompt9
chatgpt9
recommender-system9
fine-tuning9
generative-ai9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AnswerDotAI/ModernBERT
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling
Contributions:35 reviews, 34 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
bertembeddingsllmnlp
AnswerDotAI/RAGatouille
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Easily use and train state of the art late-interaction retrieval methods (ColBERT) in any RAG pipeline. Designed for modularity and ease-of-use, backed by research.
Contributions:13 releases, 36 reviews, 93 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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