I'm Ben, a computational biologist, genomic detective, and entrepreneur.
Currently, I'm building the computational biology team at Pattern Biosciences. Pattern is developing "DNA computers" for cancer therapeutics, and 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. We're always hiring across computational and synthetic biology.
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.
Previously, 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
- 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
- Accelerated computing is the future of genomics 2023-01-10
- Bioinformatics in the cloud, on a budget 2022-10-22
- Getting a industry job after grad school 2022-10-02
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
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