Benjamin Lackey
Data And Applied Scientist II
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lackey is a Data and Applied Scientist II at Microsoft with 14 years of experience blending software engineering and applied ML, currently based in Redmond. He transitioned from postdoctoral research in gravitational-wave physics to industry, bringing rigorous quantitative methods and a PhD-level background to NLP and production ML systems. At Infinia ML he applied data-science best practices to real-world problems before joining Microsoft to scale models and analytics. His work sits at the intersection of research and productization—turning complex probabilistic and signal-processing intuition into deployable NLP solutions. Colleagues rely on him for technically robust experimentation design and for translating academic-grade models into maintainable code. Outside work he retains an active research mindset rooted in gravitational-wave physics that informs creative approaches to noisy, high-dimensional data.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Penn State University
Github Skills (13)
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signal-processing8
data-privacy8
physics8
python7
astronomy7
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machine-learning6
privacy3
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benjaminlackey/eosinference
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
benjaminlackey/pycbc
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
cbcpythonpython3
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