Benjamin Hoover
PHD Student at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hoover is a PhD student at Georgia Tech and research engineer at IBM Research with eight years of experience at the intersection of engineering and machine learning. He investigates why deep learning works so well by studying foundation models through the lens of associative memory, combining theoretical visualization with practical experimentation. His background spans biomedical engineering and electrical/computer engineering, with applied experience building ML models for medical sensors at Medtronic and teaching engineering courses at Duke. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he frames large models as memory systems to uncover interpretable mechanisms and guide model design. Based in Atlanta, he brings both industry rigor and academic curiosity to foundational AI questions, often translating complex theory into reproducible experiments and visual tools.
8 years of coding experience
Master's of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University
Chinese
Github Skills (89)
python10
representations10
deep-learning10
transformer10
nlp10
automatic-differentiation10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
explore10
speech-recognition10
jax9
transformers9
language-model9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bhoov/exbert
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
A Visual Analysis Tool to Explore Learned Representations in Transformers Models
Contributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 83 pushes in 9 months
transformersrepresentationsvisual-analysisexplorelearned
bhoov/transformers
Jan 2020 - Aug 2024
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
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