Ben Trevett

I'm currently working as a Senior AI Engineer @ aveni.

I have a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, where my research was on applying natural language processing-based machine learning algorithms to programming languages.

Prior to that, I obtained a First-Class Master's degree (MEng) in Digital Electronics (now known as Electronics and Computer Engineering) from the University of Sheffield.

In my spare time I enjoy: reading, listening to podcasts, doing crosswords, solving puzzles, playing board games, walking my dog, and watching sports.

Contact

You can contact me on twitter or via e-mail.

Projects

Things that I've worked on.

2026-09	Cryptic Index: An index of indicators for cryptic crossword clues.
2026-09	Minesweeper Sudoku: A puzzle game combining Minesweeper and Sudoku.
2026-08	Tetronimo Place: A puzzle game combining Tetris and Shikaru.
2026-08	122333 Sudoku: A Sudoku variant.
2026-08	Wordie Place: A word game. Place tiles to complete words.
2026-08	Bee Switch: A word game. Shift words until you spell a pangram.
2026-08	Bee Definition: A word game. Guess words based on their definitions.
2026-08	Wordie Down: A word game. Shift words to spell hidden words.
2026-08	Wordie Loop: A word game. Place words to fill a loop, where the last letter of each is the first letter of the next.
2026-08	Wordie Grid: A word game. Fill a grid so every row spells a word, try and beat the target score.
2026-08	Pineapple Grid: A puzzle game. Place cards into a grid, scoring every row and column as a poker hand.
2026-08	Pineapple Lines: A solo variant of Pineapple Open Face Chinese Poker.
2025-08	The Castles of Burgundy Automata: An implementation of an Automata to play the The Castles of Burgundy board game solo.
2025-07	Forest Shuffle Automata: An implementation of an Automata to play the Forest Shuffle card game solo.
2025-04	repository-template: A repository template for Python projects, using: uv, ruff, pre-commit, and pytest.
2024-04	clip-search: Text-to-image search with OpenCLIP, Docker, Flask, Faiss, etc. and a basic front-end.
2024-04	hackerdaily2hackernews: A Google Chrome extension that redirects from HackerDaily comments to Hacker News comments.
2022-10	lexisearch: Retrieval augmented generation on transcriptions from the Lex Fridman Podcast.
2022-02	GloVedle: A version of Wordle using GloVe embeddings.
2022-02	Wordle Terminal: A Python port of Wordle which is played in the terminal.
2022-01	UUIDv4 Generator: Generate UUIDv4s in the browser, because I didn't like the way the top result on Google generated them.
2021-XX	Sentiment Analysis Tutorial: A tutorial on how to implement some common deep learning based sentiment analysis (text classification) models in PyTorch with torchtext, specifically the NBOW, GRU, bi-LSTM, CNN and Transformer models. Somehow got popular and has quite a few stars.
2021-XX	Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Tutorial: A tutorial implementing neural (deep learning based) sequence-to-sequence models in PyTorch with torchtext, by implementing six NMT papers. Also has quite a few stars and was used as a basis for the official PyTorch language translation tutorial.
2021-08	easynlp: A library for performing natural language processing - such as zero-shot classification, translation, named entity recognition, summarization, and question answering - inference on given data utilizing the pre-trained models from transformers.
2021-02	Image Classification Tutorial: A tutorial covering how to implement some deep learning computer vision models in PyTorch with torchvision. Covers: a basic multi-layer perceptron, LeNet, AlexNet, VGG and ResNet.
2021-01	A Tour of Optimizers: A tutorial on common optimization algorithms used for neural networks, including: SGD, Adagrad, Adadelta, RMSprop and Adam.
2020-10	numberworld: A reinforcement learning toy environment for task-oriented language grounding.
2020-07	Glyphs of Dialogue: A small project combining ideas from GlyphNet and Dimensions of Dialogue.
2020-03	Recurrent Attention Model: A PyTorch implementation of the Recurrent Attention Model from the Recurrent Models of Visual Attention paper.
2019-03	countworld: Generating synthetic datasets that deal with counting.
2016-??	snake: Snake in Javascript.
2016-??	difference: A timed mental maths game in Javascript.

Notebooks

Things I've learned, formatted as Python notebooks.