Associate Director Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
New York, New York, United States
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Binesh Bannerjee is an AI and machine learning leader with over 18 years of experience applying advanced models to transform publishing operations and discoverability. As Associate Director of AI/ML at Penguin Random House he led development of Simile, a multi-modal neural network that blends text, cover art, metadata and user signals to improve tagging and drove a measurable 3.8% sales uplift via optimized Amazon metadata. He’s hands-on with PyTorch, TensorFlow and embeddings work, contributed practical improvements to the popular tensorboardX project, and built production-ready tooling (a Python wheel) and 3D visualizations to make model outputs actionable for business teams. A skilled translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders, he also created company-wide training programs that turned non-programmers into productive automation adopters. Binesh combines deep research-style experimentation (RAG, LLMs, Stable Diffusion) with pragmatic product delivery to boost both reader experience and commercial outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Queens College
tensorboard for pytorch (and chainer, mxnet, numpy, ...)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Binesh primarily contributed to the functionality of the `tensorboardx` library, which provides TensorBoard visualizations for PyTorch models. Their work included adding features such as handling multiple embeddings per epoch, demonstrating a practical use case. They also made code modifications by reorganizing the embedding directory structure and correcting the formatting of the code. They also made changes to the demonstration file and updated some of the code to be more concise.
Contributions:121 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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Binesh Bannerjee - Associate Director Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning