Maximiliana Behnke
Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMaximiliana Behnke is a Senior Research Engineer with 11 years’ experience applying large-scale deep learning to machine translation and LLMs, now based at Microsoft in Edinburgh. She holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism and has a track record of moving research into production through roles at Intel and university research projects. Her work spans NLP, information retrieval and data mining, with hands-on expertise in efficient model pruning and in-domain tuning for neural machine translation. She has taught and supported practical machine learning courses, combining research rigor with clear mentoring and systems-level engineering. Notably, she contributed to industry-shared MT tasks and production NMT tuning using crowdsourced corpora, highlighting a pragmatic focus on deployed AI. Outside pure research she blends systems administration and internship experience, giving her a broad operational perspective on ML systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism, Awarded with no corrections., Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism, Awarded with no corrections. at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Engineering, Information and Internet Technologies, Bachelor of Engineering, Information and Internet Technologies at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Polish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (57)
cv-template10
keras10
jekyll10
resume10
jekyll-theme10
interoperability9
pytorch9
sequence-to-sequence8
sequence8
deep-learning8
scikit-learn8
ctc8
machine-learning8
mxnet8
facebook8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fiqas/fiqas.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
A minimal Jekyll Theme to host your resume (CV)
Contributions:69 pushes in 4 years 2 months
hostutterancesjekyll-theme-minimaljekylljekyll-theme
fiqas/marian-dev
May 2018 - Aug 2023
The training framework for marian - development repository
Contributions:4 PRs, 111 pushes, 27 branches in 5 years 3 months
phptraining
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