Benjamin K
Technical Fellow at Rare Cancer Research Foundation
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin K is a Technical Fellow and multidisciplinary computational scientist with 12 years of experience applying machine learning and systems engineering to biomedical and scientific problems. He splits his time between leading computational efforts at the Rare Cancer Research Foundation and running Vendekagon Labs, where he bridges data science, ML engineering, and production systems across disciplines. A persistent Clojure practitioner and contributor to projects like the cortex ML library, he has deep experience debugging low-level model issues and optimizing GPU workflows. Outside of biotech he is a prolific electronic music composer (PatternShift and several aliases) and science fiction author, a creative practice that informs his unconventional approach to problem framing. He holds a PhD in Geography and combines rigorous academic training with hands-on software delivery for high-stakes, data-intensive domains.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Geography at University at BuffaloBA Archaeology, BA Archaeology at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (16)
neural-network10
clojure10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
clojure-cli10
cortex10
cortex-a10
caffe9
gpu-programming9
keras6
datalog6
exceptions6
indexing6
python6
database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
originrose/cortex
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Machine learning in Clojure
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:41 commits, 8 PRs, 46 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on debugging and improving the machine learning capabilities of the Cortex library. They addressed a bug related to bias initialization, ensuring the correct handling of nil bias in convolutional layers. Additionally, the user updated and refactored existing examples, and configured new examples to run on GPU hardware.
clojuremachine-learning
cognitect-labs/transducers-python
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:88 commits in 1 month
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