Benjamin Steenhoek
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Steenhoek is a Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft with nine years of experience bridging deep learning and software engineering, and a recent PhD from Iowa State University focused on applying ML to developer tools and code intelligence. He progressed from software internships and industry roles at Ag Leader to research positions at Iowa State and multiple Microsoft internships before joining Microsoft Research full time, combining production software skills (C#, JavaScript, Python) with rigorous research methods. His work has produced conference publications and practical contributions to tooling and data-driven engineering, reflecting a blend of academic impact and applied systems-building. Based in Des Moines, he brings a pragmatic mindset—comfortable shipping SaaS and embedded features as well as exploring novel architectures in deep learning for software—making him effective at turning research prototypes into usable engineering features.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bob Jones UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (185)
toolbox10
security10
deep-learning10
svg10
gpu10
optimus10
compression10
optimization10
markdown10
javascript10
browser10
api10
vulnerabilities10
svg-editor10
data-parallelism10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bstee615/bstee615.github.io
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
My personal website, forked from academicpages/academicpages.github.io
Contributions:3 PRs, 113 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
bstee615/manybugs-scripts
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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