Vinamra Benara
Graduate Student Researcher
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinamra Benara is a final-year AI PhD candidate at UC Berkeley’s Sky Lab/BAIR and a graduate student researcher with a decade of experience building and researching large language models, machine learning, and systems under Prof. Ion Stoica. He has blended academic rigor with industry impact through internships and research roles at Microsoft Research and Amazon CoreAI, driving applied ML systems research. His background spans from EECS foundations to hands-on systems work developed earlier at Carnegie Mellon and IIIT Hyderabad, giving him a strong cross-stack perspective. Notably, he has balanced long-term Berkeley research since 2019 with short-term industry collaborations, signaling an ability to move ideas from lab prototypes toward production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Integrated Bachelor's and Masters, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Integrated Bachelor's and Masters, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (39)
pytorch10
parallel10
python10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
scaling10
llm10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
ray10
optimization10
data-science9
rllib9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vinamrabenara/Combinational-ATPG-Tool
Dec 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
vinamrabenara/vinamrabenara.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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