Vinamra Benara
San Francisco, 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
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence 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 (37)
pytorch10
parallel10
python10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
optimization10
data-science9
llm9
llm-inference9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
ai9
deep-learning9
hyperparameter-optimization9
ray9
Programming languages (5)
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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