Benjamin Harvey

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Education

  • DSc, Bowie State University, 2015
  • MS, Bowie State University, 2011
  • BS, Mississippi Valley State University, 2008

Areas of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, AI Augmentation, AI Reality, Large-scale graphs, Big Data, Data Science, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

Biography

I graduated from Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) in 2008 with a B.S. in Pre-Medicine & Computer Science. I received a Master of Science in Computer Science from Bowie State University in 2011 and a Doctor of Science in Computer Science from Bowie State University (BSU) in 2015. I’m currently a Sr. Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University supporting Nilanjan as a data scientist. I previously served as a Lead Data Scientist and Solutions Architect with Databricks where I supported data science solutions engineering for federal customers and developed genomics pipelines for their Public Sector and Health and Life Sciences (HLS) services organization.

I was also a Research Professor at George Washington University (GWU) within the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science’s joint Data Analytics graduate program where I taught Data Science and Big Data Analytics courses. I joined the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2009 and worked there for nearly a decade where my final position was the Chief of Operations Data Science. I was hired into the Cryptologic Computer Science Develop Program (CDP), graduated from the CDP in 2012, and was the first African American to be accepted and to finish the program. I was a research fellow at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) program in 2008.

I was a Post-Graduate Research-Fellow with i2b2, National Center for Biomedical Computing, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program (CHIP) in conjunction with at Harvard Medical School.

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics risk modeling
  • AI recommender system models
  • Large-scale cancer genomics
  • Genomics signal processing
  • Augmented intelligence

Awards & Honors

  • 2020 Board of Advisors, Bowie State University, Department of Computer Science

  • 2020 Board of Advisors, Virginia Tech, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • 2019 NSF National ICorps, Principal Investigator, AI Augmentation and Integration

  • 2017 Intelligence Community and Counter-Intelligence Security Professional Award

  • 2016 Office of the Director National Intelligence (ODNI) Award for Human Capital

  • 2015 Bowie State University Dissertation of the Year Award

  • 2015 Bowie State University Computer Science Chair’s Award Dissertation of the Year

  • 2011 NSA/CSS Cryptologic Computer Science Development Program

  • 2010 National Institute of Health Research Fellowship, Clinical Center

  • 2009 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (i2b2)

  • 2009 National Institute of Health Clinical Center Research Fellow

  • 2009 Harvard Medical School-Brigham and Women’s Hospital Post-Baccalaureate

  • 2008 Harvard-MIT Health & Science Technology (HST) Internship Program

  • 2008 National Association of Mathematicians Summer Research Grant, ECSU

  • 2007 Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program Grant, University of Tennessee

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