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Ben Busby, PhD

DNAnexus, California, United States

Ben Busby is a Director and Principal Scientist at DNAnexus, where he develops the scientific strategy for large biobank, multimodal data integration, and machine learning engagements. Ben has also been involved in developing, organizing, and implementing approximately 70 national and international hackathons, codeathons, or challenges in the biomedical space since 2014, involving thousands of graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers. Before DNAnexus, Ben founded the Bioinformatics and Data Science Department at the Foundation for the Advanced Education in the Sciences Graduate School on the NIH campus, growing the department from 1-22 courses per year and supervising several dozen faculty. Ben continues to be actively involved in several biological data science research projects with collaborators across industry, government, and academia. Ben is particularly interested in helping graduate students, postdoctoral and senior researchers in academia, and biologists of all stripes in industry integrate data science into translational research.

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