Gabriel Benedict
Machine Learning Scientist GenAI at Amazon
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolGabriel Benedict is a Machine Learning Scientist focused on Generative AI with eight years of experience spanning industry and academia, currently building GenAI capabilities at Amazon from Madrid. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Amsterdam and an MS in Statistics, with a research track record in practical metrics-as-losses, diversity-aware recommendation metrics, and self-supervised models for genomics. Gabriel has repeatedly bridged research and product: co-founding an AI music recommendation startup that scaled neural inference across millions of songs, productionizing personalization and finetuning CNNs and BERT models at media and publishing companies. He brings strong statistical foundations and systems experience (Airflow, Databricks, AWS/GCP) alongside hands-on ML engineering—evidenced by contributions to open-source projects like face-swap where he improved multi-face handling and warping quality. Comfortable moving from advanced theory to high-throughput deployment, he combines causal thinking and behavioral modelling to optimize real-world recommendation and satisfaction metrics.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at KU LeuvenBachelor’s Degree Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Economics at University of St.GallenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning at University of AmsterdamHigh School Mathematics & Physics, High School Mathematics & Physics at Gymnasee de ChamblandesMaster of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at Columbia University
French, German, English, Portuguese, Hebrew
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Github Skills (9)
face-detection10
computer-vision10
python10
image-processing10
machine-learning8
numpy8
concatenation6
pandas6
r6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wuhuikai/FaceSwap
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Swap face between two photos.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on refining the `face_swap.py` script, modifying the face warping process through adjustments to coordinate calculations. The commits demonstrate iterative changes, likely aimed at improving the visual quality or accuracy of the face swapping. Furthermore, the user added functionality to handle multiple faces within the `face_detection.py` and `main.py` files, expanding the application's capabilities.
swapface-swapface-detectionfacephotos
rtlnl/streaming-intent-model
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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