Benjamin Martin

Benjamin Martin

Graduate Research Assistant

Phone: (865) 576-3569
Email: martinbw@ornl.gov

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2009
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2012

Expertise

Machine Learning and Data Mining

Professional Experience

2010 – Present, Graduate Research Assistant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  Oak Ridge, TN
2009 – 2010, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Tennessee – Engineering Fundamentals Department,      Knoxville, TN
2008, Software Engineering Intern, Control Technology Inc., Knoxville, TN
2008, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Tennessee – Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Knoxville, TN

Awards & Recognition     

  • Responsible Code of Research Certification - 2010
  • Licensed Engineering Intern in Tennessee - 2009

Selected Publications

  • Koessler, D., Martin, B., Kiefer, B., and Berry, M. W., 2012. "The Effects of Tabular-based Content Extraction on Patent Document Clustering," 2012 SIAM Workshop on Text Mining, Anaheim, CA, April, 2012.
  • Martin, B., and Arel, I., 2012. "Intrinsically Motivated Exploration via Intrinsic Value Calculation," in Proc. of the 50th ACM SE Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, March, 2012.

Professional Interests

Machine intelligence, curiosity-based machine learning, learning-based visual attention, image sub-feature classification, natural language processing, neural networks.