Hi, I'm Ben
I work on genomic language models at Radical Numerics. In my spare time, I write about quant finance, mountain biking, agentic coding, and lots more.
Previously, I worked on logic-gated cancer therapeutics at Pattern Biosciences. Before that, computational infrastructure and data tooling at Deep Origin, and I led the bioinformatics team at Loyal, a clinical-stage biotech 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, where I developed and 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 that of her infant.
Latest writing
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Revisiting VIX Call hedging - 2025 data update and new strategies
Five years on: revisiting OTM VIX-call tail hedges with a 2025 data extension - equity curves, risk/return frontier, and timing luck reduction, reproduced in Python.
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Launching Radical Numerics
Radical Numerics emerges from stealth with $50M of seed funding and state of the art genomic language models.
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Reducing RNA-seq batch effects by re-aligning TCGA and GTEx
Batch effects are a constant pain when comparing RNA-seq data from different sources, but re-processing with consistent bioinformatics tools can reduce much of the effect.
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s3stasher simplifies using AWS S3 in python
s3stasher is a python package that transparently handles files in s3. It also maintains a local cache of recent files for offline use.
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Fixing a Milli-q purifier for 99% off
Milli-q water purifiers are too smart for their own good, but splicing in a large resistor can bypass some of the restrictions.
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Does AMD 3D V-Cache help in bioinformatics?
Deciding which server CPUs to buy by giving my 7950X3D split-brain syndrome and running lots of pipelines.