Ben is a PhD candidate at the Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems and an ACES associate at the BU Center for Computational Science. Before coming to Boston, he earned his BS in Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon and spent three years in the Advanced Networking Group at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Ben’s research interests touch large-scale simulation, homeostatic plasticity, evolutionary programming, and all things technology. He’s also a complete programming language junkie, currently oscillating between Haskell, C/CUDA, and Clojure.

FULL DISCLOSURE: BEN IS PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE DARPA SyNAPSE PROJECT AND BY THE NSF THROUGH CELEST.