I'm Ben, and I work on genomic language models at Radical Numerics. I'm also interested in quant finance, mountain biking, agentic coding, and lots more.
Previously, I worked on computational therapeutics at Pattern Biosciences. I truly believe it's one of the most exciting and impactful biology problems of our time. More details at the company website and in my blog posts.
Before that, I worked on computational infrastructure and data tooling at Deep Origin, and led the bioinformatics team at Loyal, an early-stage biotech startup dedicated to extending the lifespan and healthspan of dogs.
What seems like ages ago, I did my PhD in Dr. Ami Bhatt's lab at Stanford University, where I used advanced genomic techniques to study the human microbiome. I'm proud to say I characterized the first examples of bacteria transmitted between the gut microbiome of adults and of phages transmitted from the gut microbiome of a mother to the gut microbiome of her infant.
Recent Blog Posts
- Reducing RNA-seq batch effects by re-aligning TCGA and GTEx 2025-11-11
- s3stasher simplifies using AWS S3 in python 2025-11-09
- Fixing a Milli-q purifier for 99% off 2025-08-05
- Does AMD 3D V-Cache help in bioinformatics? 2025-05-26
- Tail risk hedging with VIX calls (Stanford MSE448 final) 2025-05-25
- Cross-account AWS FSx for Lustre and S3 data repository associations 2023-12-06
- Introducing the ComputeBench: the cloud development environment for bioinformatics 2023-11-21
Computational biology research projects
Rare transmission of gut microbes among hospitalized patients
Integrating CMap and TCGA
MCMC reconstruction of chromatin structure
Mother-infant transmission of crAssphage
These aren't the cell lines you're looking for...
