Ph.D. Student in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
New York, New York
Student Instructor @ Kumon Math and Reading tutor at a Kumon Learning Center. From May 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 2 months) Assistant Violin Coach/Camp Counselor @ New Jersey Youth Symphony Provided one-on-one instruction to young violinists, in orchestra and chamber settings. From June 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 1 month) Research Intern, Machine Reading...
Student Instructor @ Kumon Math and Reading tutor at a Kumon Learning Center. From May 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 2 months) Assistant Violin Coach/Camp Counselor @ New Jersey Youth Symphony Provided one-on-one instruction to young violinists, in orchestra and chamber settings. From June 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 1 month) Research Intern, Machine Reading Lab @ UCL - Researched ways to efficiently learn embeddings for new tokens based only on short, natural language descriptions.- Applied research by training neural networks to learn embeddings for all emoji (implemented in TensorFlow).- Published a conference paper on our findings, winning Best Paper at an EMNLP 2016 workshop (SocialNLP 2016).- Advised by Sebastian Riedel and Tim Rocktäschel. From January 2016 to November 2016 (11 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Engineering Intern @ Google - Designed custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy enforcement infrastructure for a critical admin service.- Performed security analysis of team's codebase and created a security strategy to preserve user privacy.- Completed internal TensorFlow training course. From June 2016 to September 2016 (4 months) Kirkland, WashingtonSoftware Engineering Intern @ Microsoft - Experimented with porting desktop video conferencing software to Android using Xamarin.- Built an SSL certificate configuration tool for an embedded video conferencing product. From June 2015 to August 2015 (3 months) Seattle, WASoftware Engineering Intern @ Klink Inc. - Created a custom enterprise phone integration for Contactive’s pilot customer.- Designed a credential management and validation pipeline. From June 2014 to December 2014 (7 months) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Development Intern @ Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA, Inc. - Designed an integrated caller-ID application for service center employees.- Reduced database query latency from 60s to 4s on service calls. From July 2013 to August 2013 (2 months) Wayne, NJMachine Learning Research Engineer - Samsung AI Center @ Samsung Electronics - Developed novel Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms for exploration in sparse environments and more stable training, leading to two ML publications.- Collaborated on projects that fused traditional planning with Deep Learning to learn diverse manipulation behaviors, resulting in two Robotics publications.- Designed a complete system for robotic manipulation using the Kinova Gen3 arm, as well as low-level drivers for the RealSense camera, a dynamic vision sensor, and Syntouch touch sensors.- Architected a comprehensive Deep Reinforcement Learning framework for large-scale distributed learning and experimentation. From November 2018 to August 2020 (1 year 10 months) New York, New YorkSoftware Engineer III - Geo Data @ Google - Developed a workflow management system for simulating world-scale launches for Google Maps and Knowledge Graph.- Ran hermetic and reproducible experiments across 30+ internal Maps/Search systems developed by dozens of teams, enabling major org-wide launches.- Consistently managed tens of simultaneous, multi-day experiments, which processed petabytes of data across thousands of nodes. From September 2017 to November 2018 (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City Area
Kumon
Student Instructor
May 2011 to June 2013
New Jersey Youth Symphony
Assistant Violin Coach/Camp Counselor
June 2011 to June 2012
UCL
Research Intern, Machine Reading Lab
January 2016 to November 2016
London, United Kingdom
Software Engineering Intern
June 2016 to September 2016
Kirkland, Washington
Microsoft
Software Engineering Intern
June 2015 to August 2015
Seattle, WA
Klink Inc.
Software Engineering Intern
June 2014 to December 2014
Greater New York City Area
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA, Inc.
Software Development Intern
July 2013 to August 2013
Wayne, NJ
Samsung Electronics
Machine Learning Research Engineer - Samsung AI Center
November 2018 to August 2020
New York, New York
Software Engineer III - Geo Data
September 2017 to November 2018
Greater New York City Area
Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies
High School Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technologies, GPA: 4.0
2009 to 2013
Princeton University
Bachelor of Science and Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Science, Senior
2013 to 2017
UCL
Affiliate Studies, Computer Science, Firsts
2016 to 2016
Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics
2020 to 2025
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Benjamin Eisner works for Kumon
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Benjamin Eisner is Student Instructor
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Benjamin Eisner works in the Internet industry.
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