Hi, I'm Ben
I work on genomic language models at Radical Numerics — plus 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. Before that, computational infrastructure and data tooling at Deep Origin, and I led the bioinformatics team at Loyal, an early-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 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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Deep learning statistical arbitrage - Replication
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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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Reducing RNA-seq batch effects by re-aligning TCGA and GTEx
I want to be able to compare RNA-seq data between several public sources and internal datasets. I care a lot about the differential expression of certain…
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s3stasher simplifies using AWS S3 in python
Working with cloud files in python is a necessary pain at any biotech organization. While packages like pandas transparently handle S3 URIs, I still found…
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Fixing a Milli-q purifier for 99% off
We bought a used Milli-q 7005 ultrapure water purifier from an auction for a great price. It came with most of what we need, but was missing the external…
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Does AMD 3D V-Cache help in bioinformatics?
Introduction In our new office at Pattern, I have 42U of server rack space to play with, so I want to get an AMD EPYC server for some long-running…