Orion Weller
Graduate Research Assistant
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOrion Weller is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at Johns Hopkins University with eight years of research and engineering experience focused on language models, retrieval, and long-context embeddings. He has interned at top AI labs including Meta FAIR, Google DeepMind, and AI2, contributing to work published at EMNLP, ACL, EACL, and ICLR (notably on the first promptable retrieval models). Orion blends academic rigor with applied research—advisors include Ben Van Durme and Dawn Lawrie—and has a track record of shipping research during industry internships at Apple and Samaya AI. Based in Baltimore, he brings a rare combination of deep NLP expertise and practical system-building across both academic and industrial settings.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Statistics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (135)
similarity-search10
transformers10
multilabel-classification10
hugo-theme10
benchmark10
hugo10
language-model10
neural-search10
python10
sentence10
semantic-search10
flax10
deep-learning10
bug-reporting10
embedding10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
orionweller/WebsiteBuilder
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
A beautiful Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:150 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
academicsbeautiful-jekylljekylljekyll-themebeautiful-jekyll-theme
orionw/rJokesData
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
A large scale Humor Dataset, containing more than 550k rated English jokes
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 8 months
datasethumor-detectionlreclrec2020machine-learning
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