Ben Kovitz
Assistant Professor at Cal Poly Humboldt
Eureka, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Kovitz is an assistant professor and systems-minded software engineer with 22 years of experience building high-performance, accuracy-critical software across embedded systems, compilers, simulation tools, and computational models of thought. He combines deep low-level expertise (C++, x86 assembly, embedded Linux) with research in analogy-making and evolutionary computation from a Ph.D. under Douglas Hofstadter, and has driven production-quality tooling and test-driven practices in academic and industry projects alike. Ben helped spark the conversation that led to Wikipedia and has a long history of collaborative engineering—pair programming, mob programming, and wiki-driven workflows are core to his approach. He’s shipped DNA fragment matchers, SBML systems-biology tools, and OS components, and is drawn to distilling complex system problems into clear, efficient code that scales. Based in Eureka, CA, he blends research rigor with pragmatic software delivery and an unusual focus on how evolvability and analogy influence generative AI and language design.
22 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at Humboldt State UniversityPh.D., Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Ph.D., Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Stackoverflow
4,960reputation
128kreached
59answers
96questions
Github Skills (79)
api10
systems-biology10
sbml10
native-library10
language-bindings10
matlab9
code-golf9
markup-language9
racket9
python9
perl9
linter9
biology9
data-format9
scheme9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bkovitz/FARGish
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1446 commits, 1530 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
bkovitz/acclivation
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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