Santiago Benoit
Founding Applied AI Researcher at Lemon Slice (YC W24)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Benoit is a founding applied AI researcher with a decade of experience building machine learning systems, most recently focusing on realtime interactive AI video avatar generation at Lemon Slice (YC W24). He holds both a BS in Artificial Intelligence and an MS in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon, where his thesis introduced theoretical innovations for a ground-up music generation system and he spent six years as a Student Researcher in the MultiComp Lab. His background spans multimodal and generative modeling, time-series methods, and applied research internships at Meta and the Broad Institute, bridging academic rigor with product-focused engineering. Known for a creative, curiosity-driven approach, he deliberately explores unconventional ideas to tackle hard problems and move models from theory into interactive, real-time applications.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Language Technologies, Master of Science - MS Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon UniversityConcord Carlisle High School
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
994reputation
91kreached
52answers
15questions
Github Skills (73)
python10
deep-learning10
gpu10
machine-learning10
numpy9
acceleration9
neural-network9
tensor9
music9
magenta9
gpu-acceleration9
music-generation9
autograd9
tensorflow9
theano9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
santient/sparse-transformer
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
santient/convcrypt
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Data encryption using n-dimensional convolutional neural networks.
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pythonconvolutionaldimensionaln-dimensionalneural-networks
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