Benjamin Hall
Professor In Computational Cancer Biology
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hall is a Professor in Computational Cancer Biology with 11+ years blending physics, chemistry, computer science and biology to model how healthy cells make decisions and how those processes fail in cancer. A Royal Society University Research Fellow turned UCL professor and co-chair of the UCL Computational Cancer Collaboratorium, he builds computational and HPC/Grid tools—principally in F# and Python—to bridge theory and experiment in developmental systems biology and molecular modelling. His work spans formal methods applied to biological networks (developed at Microsoft Research) through high-performance molecular dynamics and patient-specific treatment models for HIV. He publishes and edits in leading venues (Academic Editor at PLoS Computational Biology) and has translated research into open-source tools used beyond academia. Notably, his background in formal verification and synthesis gives him a rare computational rigor for designing predictive, reduced models of complex biological decision-making. Based in Cambridge, he combines deep software engineering with hands-on biophysical simulation to tackle early and later stages of cancer development.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Biochemistry, DPhil, Biochemistry at University of Oxford
German
Github Skills (35)
z39
genomics8
bioinformatics8
user-friendly8
biology7
verification7
sbml7
proteins7
systems-biology7
vscode6
simulation6
ionide5
webservice5
ide5
image-recognition4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hallba/WritingSimulators
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 10 months
simulatorssystems-biologybiologysimulationpractical
hallba/Z3Tutorials
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
A set of F# scripts demonstrating how to use Z3
Contributions:14 commits, 26 pushes in 4 years
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