Been Kim
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Summary
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SeniorBeen Kim is a research-focused engineering leader with 11+ years driving human-centered interpretability at Google Brain and DeepMind, now serving as Director. She bridges rigorous ML research and practical tooling—most notably as a lead on the influential TCAV interpretability project (featured at Google I/O and honored by UNESCO)—and has shaped the field through keynotes at ICLR, ECML and the G20. An MIT PhD, she pairs academic depth with product-minded engineering, contributing code, compatibility fixes and visualization improvements to open-source TCAV. Beyond building tools, she studies how machine representations compare to human concepts and advocates for higher-level, human-friendly model languages. Active in shaping the community, she has held senior program and committee roles across NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and FAccT and helped organize long-running workshops on human interpretability.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
model-building10
machine-learning10
interpretation10
tensorflow10
python10
modeling10
model-driven10
model-driven-development10
scikit-learn9
scikit9
computer-vision8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/tcav
Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
Code for the TCAV ML interpretability project
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:35 commits, 17 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Been primarily contributed to the `tcav` repository, a project focused on the TCAV ML interpretability method. Their commits demonstrate expertise in model-related aspects by modifying the image value range for an InceptionV3 model and addressing warnings related to model training. The user also implemented changes to the plotting utilities and added arguments to address deprecation warnings from sklearn. Moreover, they modified the code by adding comments and fixing an issue with Python 3 compatibility.
machine-learninginterpretabilitytcav
BeenKim/MMD-critic
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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