Benjamin Spiegel
Doctoral Student at Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Spiegel is an ML researcher and PhD student at Brown University with nine years of hands-on experience spanning robotics, computer vision, NLP, and decision-making sciences. Currently an ML Research Intern on Nuro’s Post Training Team, he builds systems that learn to understand and spontaneously generate human language by distilling sensorimotor experience into interpretable symbols. His background blends applied engineering—shipping mobile features at Workday and building RL priors and domain-specific languages in robotics—with research on synthetic dataset generation and question-answering systems. Trained at the intersection of cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy, he brings a rare combination of rigorous theory and practical implementation, plus a creative side as a writer and musician.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computational and Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, High School, Computational and Applied Mathematics & Computer Science at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Brown University
English
Github Skills (8)
wiki-engine8
modular8
netbsd7
php7
freebsd6
ros5
garden2
ports1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neapsix/.dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:148 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 2 months
neapsix/wezterm
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Soho vibes for WezTerm
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 months
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