Ben Horowitz
Kavli Fellow at The University of Tokyo
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Horowitz is a Kavli Fellow and physics PhD whose 12-year career bridges astrophysics research and large-scale student-focused education programs. He has held postdoctoral positions at Berkeley Lab and Princeton and now continues research at the University of Tokyo while maintaining a rare operational depth in outreach—scaling the Splash model from a Yale startup to a national network that reaches over 15,000 middle and high school students annually. As founding Executive Director of Learning Unlimited and cofounder of Splash at Yale, he combines curriculum design, volunteer mobilization, and program development to make advanced STEM topics accessible and joyfully taught. Based in Berkeley, he pairs rigorous research in cosmology and particle physics with practical experience in running campus-led education, reflecting a persistent focus on inspiring the next generation of scientists. An educator at heart, he often emphasizes curiosity-driven learning over grades, a conviction shaped by his own formative Splash experiences.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree, Math and Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Math and Physics at Yale University
English
Github Skills (42)
logistics10
energy8
mdt8
distributions8
javascript8
cosmology7
random-walk7
injection7
halo6
refinement5
snl-applications5
statistical-inference5
machine-learning5
mesh4
particle4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bhorowitz/bhorowitz.github.io
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
bhorowitz/LU-Website-Beta
Sep 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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