Bernard Beckerman
Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBernard Beckerman is a Machine Learning Engineer in New York with nine years of experience applying rigorous scientific methods to industrial data science problems. He brings a PhD-level background in materials science and published mechanistic simulation work (Nature, PNAS) to building production ML systems at Facebook after three years as a data scientist at Uptake. Skilled in back-end engineering for adaptive experimentation (contributed to the prominent facebook/Ax repo), Bernard combines modeling, simulation, and software engineering to turn complex system insights into actionable business recommendations. He also has a track record of teaching computational thinking to students and translating academic research into reproducible code and documentation.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics and Mathematics at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (7)
python10
documentation9
data-structure9
data-structures9
testing7
data-manipulation6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/Ax
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
Adaptive Experimentation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 121 PRs, 145 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Bernard primarily contributed to the back-end logic and data structures within the `ax` repository, a platform for adaptive experimentation. Their work involved making changes to the `ax/storage/botorch_modular_registry.py` file by making the BotAx registries string-based by class name. Furthermore, they were responsible for edits to documentation, including website content related to tutorials and examples of various features of the library. They were also responsible for code refactoring tasks.
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bernardbeckerman/Ax
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Adaptive Experimentation Platform
Contributions:218 pushes, 120 branches in 4 years 2 months
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