Roy Benjamin

At Salesforce I lead conversational analytics for Tableau Next: the LLM-powered layer that lets people ask questions of their data in plain language. It's live today with dozens of enterprise customers.

I got here the long way around: physical design on Apple's silicon team, applied research on transformer ranking models and responsible AI at Gloat, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Technion, where I published a first-author paper at CIKM 2022 on graph neural networks for molecular property prediction, advised by Kira Radinsky. I keep a foot in the research world as a NeurIPS ethics reviewer and WSDM reviewer.

The throughline is making complex things clear: multiple Excellence in Teaching awards as a CS teaching assistant at the Technion, lecturing for SpaceIL since 2015, mentoring at Startup Nation Central, and hosting The Fine Print. The MBA at Imperial College Business School is the business half of the same equation.

The Fine Print (האותיות הקטנות): a Hebrew podcast where I sit down with people doing extraordinary things (researchers, founders, industry professionals) and uncover the details that usually go untold.

New episodes roughly monthly since July 2024. Subscribe on your favourite platform:

I speak about shipping LLM products in the enterprise (evaluation, trust, and semantics), the path from research to product, and building a career across silicon, research, and AI products. Lecturing for SpaceIL since 2015, multiple Excellence in Teaching awards at the Technion, and a podcast mic in front of me every month.

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