Benjamin K. Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, US

Computational science across disciplinary boundaries.

Vendekagon is the label I use to unify my music projects. I produce and compose music under the artist names PatternShift, Hadamard Gate, Generation Ship, Mnemonurgos, Abandoned Kingdom, Datacaster, and Fading Skies. I have more than a dozen albums and a couple hundred songs across various commercial releases and production music on APM Music.

PatternShift is my electronic music project. I've released eight full length albums: Cascade, Other Oceans, Exponent, Fragments of the Fleet, Vaskania Prime, Wake of the Wanderer, and Alternate Universes Vols. 1 & 2, in addition to several singles and EPs. My music has been streamed millions of times across platforms and been used in film, television, and.

South San Francisco, California, US

Noetik is an AI-native biotech harnessing self-supervised learning to discover better precision immunotherapies.

San Francisco, CA, US

Lead developer and architect for CANDEL (the Cancer Data and Evidence Library). Contributor to other data science and computational efforts at PICI.

San Francisco, CA, US

PICI's mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases. This involves integrating and analyzing data from a large and ever-changing set of multiomics assays. The opportunities and challenges in biological data are both scaling exponentially: navigating this new territory is the most.

New York, NY, US

Stedi's mission is to unravel the more than four decades old mess that is the EDI ecosystem by giving its customers an integration path with a modern developer experience that handles the gnarly bits of the aging format for them. I slung a bunch of TypeScript and built cloud systems with infrastructure-as-code via CDK, and solved several modeling problems.

Durham, NC, US

Energy resources are rapidly becoming distributed and flexible, helping us transition to a cleaner, less expensive, more reliable and resilient electric system. Tether Energy gathers these dynamic energy resources and connects them to the grid. I created models for finding trading opportunities in the day-ahead energy market.

Durham, NC, US

Solving problems with Clojure, Datomic, Data Science, and Machine Learning. I worked with a variety of clients, much of that under NDA. I am most proud of the work I did for the Parker Institute building the first prototype of CANDEL: the Cander Data and Evidence Library, an integration platform for linking multiomic data with clinical observations and.

Software consulting with a focus on Clojure, Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) and AI. I was the deep learning specialist on a small team that designed and built a video analysis platform that performs state of the art face detection, tracking, and facial recognition on video and imagery, and which can scale elastically in the cloud.

Durham, NC, US

Cognitect is the company behind Datomic and Clojure. I was on the Datomic team, providing developer support to customers, documentation, and handling ops/infrastructure development tasks.

Falls Church, VA, US

Resident Pythoneer for an analysis group evaluating performance of a missile tracking system, as well as other software and IRAD work.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

I was head IDL instructor at Exelis VIS and taught, modified, and designed several IDL and ENVI courses. Customers included NASA (Goddard & JPL), NOAA, BIO (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Naval Post-graduate School among many others.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

During my time in the Technical Marketing group I worked primarily as an instructor while also giving presentations on ENVI product functionality through demonstrations at trade shows and web seminars. I taught introductory courses mostly, including Introduction to IDL, Exploring ENVI, and Extending ENVI with IDL. I also developed a technique in Python and.

Redlands, CA, US

As an intern, I wrote arcpy module examples in Python for the Spatial Analyst team leading up to the release of 10.0. I participated in the ArcGIS 10 Spatial Analyst design process, coded a Python test harness branch for QA testing the NetCDF tool, and performed various other QA/testing tasks for the Spatial Analyst and Geostatistical Analyst extensions in.

Buffalo, NY, US

I worked as a teaching assistant for several courses. In addition I created maps and visualizations for the book European Prehistory: A Survey by Sarunas Milisauskas.

Buffalo, NY, US

I was on two years of full stipend fellowship support provided by the NSF IGERT in GI Science Fellowship program at UB.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography

Ms, Geographic Information Science

Ba, Archaeology