Benjamin Bolte

Roboticist and machine learning engineer, with experience at Tesla AI, FAIR, Google Research and Amazon. Interested in self-supervised learning and fast neural network inference.

Work History

K-Scale Labs

• Palo Alto, January 2024 - present
• Founded a company to build a developer platform for humanoid robots

Meta AI

• New York, October 2022 to May 2023
• Research engineer, working on open-ended real-world robotics

Tesla AI

• Palo Alto, March 2021 to May 2022
• Machine learning engineer, working on AI for perception
• Wrote CUDA kernels for the voxel occupancy network project
• Worked with a coworker to make a language model drive a car which was the main model behind the v11 autopilot release

Facebook AI

• Seattle, May 2018 to February 2021
• Research engineer, worked on representation learning for speech
• Coauthored multiple high-impact papers (available through my Google Scholar page)

Facebook, Care Machine Learning (Intern)

• Seattle, Summer 2017
• Built tools for automatically evaluating and deploying objectionable content classifiers
• Tripled model refresh rate and eliminated several hours of manual work per refresh

Google Research, Handwriting Recognition (Intern)

• Mountain View, Fall 2016
• Improved mixed-script online handwriting recognition system for Chinese-English and Devanagari-English language pairs
• Trained a GAN for producing handwriting using recurrent neural networks with attention components

Amazon, India Invoicing (Intern)

• Seattle, Summer 2016
• Build APIs and web services for interacting with Amazon’s invoicing system
• Diagnosed and fixed multiple incidents which cumulatively affected millions of dollars in transactions

Education

Emory University, BS in Mathematics and Computer Science

• Started the competitive programming team M || E which won our ICPC division in 2017
• Dean’s Achievement Scholarship - Highest undergraduate merit award
• Computational Neuroscience Training Grant - Highly competitive NIH Blueprint Grant for studying computational neuroscience at Emory and Georgia Tech

Honors and Awards

• TSA PreCheck - Highest civilian honor awarded by the United States Transportation Security Administration