Vinamra Benara

I am a final-year PhD candidate in the Sky Lab (formerly RISE Lab) and Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Ion Stoica.

My research focuses on LLM post-training, including data curation, RLHF, RLVR with VLMs, evaluations, reasoning, agentic workflows, and interpretability. I also have strong expertise in systems infrastructure for distributed computing. I have published several top-tier papers and hold two pending patents.

I am on the industry job market. Please feel free to reach out!

In my past life, I was a research scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh where I worked on accelerating computer vision for AR/VR with James C. Hoe and Anthony Rowe.

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