Ben Cox Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Selected by Professor Wobbes in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences to help grade and teach a class involving distributions and statistical reasoning, DS122. Created and taught presentations with fellow TA to enhance lectures during discussion classes. Supported individual learning with one-on-one aid and tutoring.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

At BU's Mars Rover Club, I spent one year as a member of the Autonomous Navigation sub-team and one year as the leader of the Software sub-team with the goal of participating in the University Rover Challenge. Some of the projects we worked on during this time included planning and designing object detection, obstacle avoidance, autonomous navigation, along with controller, motor, and other movement systems. This also included coordination with the other sub-teams' work, such as communications systems and engineering, to work towards a completed rover.

Freeport, Maine, United States

As the intern on the Platform Services Team in the IS department, I developed a billing visualization tool using Google Cloud applications to observe costs of Kubernetes and other cloud-based resources across the company. I worked and deliberated with prospective vendors to determine if any third-party resources could valuably increase the tool's complexity. During this project, I collaborated with the other Platform Services Team's systems architects to determine deliverables for project managers, update tasks, and carry the project from beginning to end. This tool is used to help specify complex billing, where overlapping Cloud resources make it hard to determine the root cause of Cloud costs. This is also where I learned the ins-and-outs of a well-run, healthy business, and how every member of its community contributes to the beneficial culture.

Portland, Maine, United States

MERITS Program Title: "The Investigation of Materials and Mechanisms to advance Satellite Construction and Space Education Exploration Project." Tasked with stress-testing potential 3D-printed plastics to be used for CubeSats under the guide of Dr. Jeremy Qualls and Dr. SoYoung Han at the University of Southern Maine. Specifically checked the amount of material each plastic outgassed when put into a vacuum chamber along with its glass transition temperature. Also tested what plastics would print better using a preset 3D model of a CubeSat as a test for ease-of-access for companies and schools to create their own satellite experiments. Compiled and analyzed the data for every material, presenting our findings at an end-of-summer event to colleagues and faculty, along with which plastic we would recommend for a 3D-printed CubeSat experiment.