Benno Krojer
PhD Candidate
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBenno Krojer is a PhD candidate at Mila and a research-focused machine learning engineer with 8 years of experience bridging computational linguistics, computer vision, and video understanding. His work spans academic and industry research—internships at Meta (FAIR/JEPA) and Mila center on world models, intuitive physics evaluation, and shortcut-resistant benchmarks for video—while earlier roles applied deep learning to medical imaging, robotics vision, and MT adversarial attacks. He brings a strong experimental bent informed by top grades in computational linguistics and hands-on engineering across startups and research labs. Comfortable moving between theory and production, he often targets robustness—lighting invariance, adversarial resilience, and shortcut-proof evaluation—rather than just raw performance. Based in Montreal, he combines interdisciplinary training with practical contributions that help make perceptual-language models more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichPhd, Artificial Intelligence, Phd, Artificial Intelligence at Mila - Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielleYear abroad with Erasmus exchange, Computer Science and Languages, Year abroad with Erasmus exchange, Computer Science and Languages at Trinity College DublinAbitur, 1.0 (GPA of 4.0), Abitur, 1.0 (GPA of 4.0) at Asam-Gymnasium München
Github Skills (90)
nlp10
reasoning9
transformer9
python9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
bert9
speech-recognition9
natural-language-processing9
tensorflow9
visual-question-answering8
video-understanding8
language-model8
transformers8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
McGill-NLP/imagecode
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Code and data for ImageCoDe, a contextual vison-and-language benchmark
Contributions:116 commits, 107 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
benchmarkcontextual
BennoKrojer/reasoning-over-facts
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
This repository contains code for the paper "Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?"
Contributions:32 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
pytorchnlppretrained-language-modelsknowledgelanguage-models
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.