Ben Burns
Graduate Research Assistant
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Burns is a second-year PhD candidate in Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech with a decade of technical experience applying generative modeling and uncertainty quantification to inverse problems in scientific machine learning. His research, supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and supervised by Professor Peng Chen, builds on prior work studying score-based diffusion models, mean-field games, and probabilistic filtering for SLAM. Ben combines deep mathematical grounding from dual degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science with extensive hands-on research and engineering roles—ranging from photogrammetric 3D fire modeling to distributed collision-avoidance algorithms for unmanned aircraft. He has a strong teaching and mentorship track record, having led large undergraduate course assistant teams and authored course materials, and has been repeatedly recognized for outstanding instructional support. Known to "vibe" on GitHub, he brings a collaborative, research-to-application mindset that surfaces nonobvious links between theory and practical AI4Science systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMathematics (BS), Computer Science (BA), Mathematics (BS), Computer Science (BA) at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (190)
tooling10
function-call10
trading10
bots10
bitcoin-core10
console-log10
cryptocurrency10
mouse10
xbox10
streaming10
p2p10
crypto10
javascript10
linux10
linux-kernel10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fqlx/XboxKeyboardMouse
May 2016 - Mar 2021
Keyboard and mouse for Xbox One streaming on Windows
Contributions:92 commits, 13 PRs, 126 pushes in 4 years 10 months
xboxwindowsmousestreaminggui
fqlx/config
Jan 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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