Fernando Benites
Senior Research Associate
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Benites is a Senior Research Associate based in Zurich with over a decade of experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world problems, grounded by a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Konstanz. He blends deep expertise in transformers, explainability, and classical ML (Sklearn) with a pragmatic lean-software mindset that helps move research into production. His career spans applied research and teaching roles at Swiss universities and industry stints building document management and classification systems, reflecting a rare mix of long-term academic depth and hands-on engineering. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous experiment design and transparent model explanations, informed by more than 20 years of engagement with ML concepts. He routinely bridges gaps between research prototypes and robust deployments, favoring reproducible, explainable solutions over black-box models.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of KonstanzMaster’s Degree, Applied Computer Science in Natural Sciences, Dipl. Inform., Master’s Degree, Applied Computer Science in Natural Sciences, Dipl. Inform. at Universität Bielefeld
English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (49)
multi-target10
scikit-multilearn10
hierarchical9
kmeans9
classification9
classifiers9
classification-algorithm9
weka9
clustering9
nlp8
procedures8
partitioning8
word-embeddings8
sequence-labeling8
evaluation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fbenites/TRANSLIT
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 6 months
fbenites/GermEval_2019
Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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