Benjamin Mencer is a third-year Computer Science undergraduate and Philosophy minor at UC Santa Cruz. He is working on a project at Stanford SLAC involving Nuclear Fusion and X-Ray research. While working at Reality Defender, Benjamin developed a data pipeline to effectively prepare and form datasets for training. He worked closely with the company’s Chief Defender, as well as with the company’s audio and product teams.

Benjamin has spoken at the Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, and recently joined its Program Planning Team. He has also spoken at the AI/Machine Learning seminar at Stanford SLAC, and in the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium.