Jake Beal
Scientist at The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJake Beal is a research-driven scientist and Engineering Fellow at RTX BBN Technologies with over a decade of experience leading projects at the intersection of biosecurity, synthetic biology, and engineered self-organization. He combines deep academic roots from MIT (PhD, MEng, SB) with practical leadership as a primary investigator, translating theories of aggregate and spatial computing into applied systems for nucleic acid screening and point-of-need bioinformatics. As a long-running research affiliate at the University of Iowa and formerly at MIT, he blends formal methods and distributed computing ideas to predict and program collective behavior in living and computational systems. His work uniquely ties early AI and amorphous computing research to contemporary challenges in biosurveillance and synthetic cell engineering, reflecting both theoretical breadth and hands-on experimental focus. Based in Iowa City, he is known for pursuing rigorous, interdisciplinary solutions that make emergent behaviors reliable and auditable in real-world settings.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MITDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (147)
synthetic-biology10
synthetic10
genomics10
posters10
unit-conversion10
bioinformatics10
cvs9
semantics9
location9
six9
specification9
owl9
computational-biology9
tla9
docking9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jakebeal/jakebeal.github.io
Dec 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:27 pushes in 5 years 3 months
TASBE/TASBEFlowAnalytics
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Flow cytometry unit conversion and analytics
Contributions:35 releases, 7 reviews, 292 commits in 5 years 11 months
analyticsunitcytometryunit-conversionflow-cytometry
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