John Miller is a machine learning researcher and engineer with 11 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic after co-founding a proprietary trading firm focused on quantitative strategies. He holds a PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley and MS/BS degrees from Stanford, and his work spans robust ML systems for financial markets, energy systems, and language/speech research. John has contributed to high-profile open benchmarks like Google’s BIG-bench, implementing reading-comprehension tasks and baselines that reflect attention to reproducibility and evaluation rigor. Equally comfortable in research and production, he blends academic depth with entrepreneurial execution and a taste for real-world, high-stakes ML applications.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
McCallie School
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stanford University
Beyond the Imitation Game collaborative benchmark for measuring and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily involve the development and extension of a reading comprehension task within the BIG-bench framework. They implemented the SQuADShifts task, a reading comprehension benchmark, and integrated it into the existing codebase. They added support for features like `max_examples` and `random_seed`, showing an understanding of the task's flexibility. Additional work includes adding baselines and code formatting.
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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John Miller - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic