Ben Lansdell
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Lore | Contagious Health
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolBen Lansdell is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience combining a PhD in Applied Mathematics and postdoctoral work in computational neuroscience to build novel ML and mathematical models for life sciences. He has moved models from theory to practice across academia and industry, including research roles at UPenn and production-focused bioinformatics and deep learning positions at St. Jude and Contagious Health. Ben excels at multidisciplinary problems—bringing rigorous quantitative methods to biological data and shipping software tools that make complex analyses reproducible and scalable. His background spans theoretical modeling, deep learning, and bioinformatics, enabling him to connect mechanistic insight with practical engineering. Based in Santa Fe, he is as comfortable writing research-grade math as deploying ML systems in healthcare settings, and often looks for elegant mathematical structure to simplify messy real-world data.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Phd Applied Mathematics, Phd Applied Mathematics at University of WashingtonThe University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
benlansdell/benlansdell.github.io
May 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:827 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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benlansdell/connectivity
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 45 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
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