Benjamin Langmead

Current

• Research Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Past

• Graduate Student at University of Maryland
• Senior Engineer at Reservoir Labs
• Student Programmer at Columbia University - Academic Information Systems (AcIS)

• Intern at University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park
• Columbia University in the City of New York

Connections

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Industry

Research

Websites

• UMD CBCB
• My Website
• My Company

Benjamin Langmead’s Summary

Benjamin Langmead’s Specialties:

High-Performance Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis, High-Performance Network Security, Cloud Computing

Benjamin Langmead’s Experience

• Research Associate

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Graduate Student

  University of Maryland

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)

• Senior Engineer

  Reservoir Labs

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2003 — May 2009 (6 years )

  Researched and composed two proposals funded by government agencies. Lead an effort funded by Department of Energy to design and produce a commercially viable prototype 10 gigabit-per-second network intrusion detection appliance running on parallel off-the-shelf network processors. Presented work to startups, chip makers, and national labs to gather requirements and establish interest. Worked to enhance performance and reliability of a Java just-in-time compiler for a Japanese client. Revamped systems infrastructure.

• Student Programmer

  Columbia University - Academic Information Systems (AcIS)

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years )

• Intern

  University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute

  (Research industry)

  June 2001 — August 2001 (3 months)

Benjamin Langmead’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  MS , Computer Science , 2007 — 2009

  Classes taken:
  Computational Gene Finding and Genome Assembly
  Algorithms in Biosequence Analysis
  Program Analysis and Understanding
  Language-Based Security
  Advanced Computer Graphics
  Introduction to Cloud Computing
  Graphs and Networks in Computational Biology
  Master's Thesis Research
  
  Bioinformatics group website: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  BA , Computer Science , 1999 — 2003

Additional Information

Benjamin Langmead’s Websites:

• UMD CBCB
• My Website
• My Company

Benjamin Langmead’s Groups:

•    The Official IEEE Group
•    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
•    ACM Members
•    Columbia University Alumni Network
•    Cloud Computing
•    PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY Official
•    Reservoir Labs Current and Former

Benjamin Langmead’s Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa (2003)
Summa Cum Laude (2003)

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