April 2024
Building a company. Building conviction.
A conversation about AI Squared, entrepreneurship, and the relationships behind a $13.8 million funding round.
Read the Forbes featureThe story, in motion.
Building AI Squared. The story behind the company.
Genetic variation and the plasma proteome across ancestry groups.
AI Squared’s $6 million seed round and the path to everyday AI.
Inside the AI boom on Closing Bell Overtime.
Individual and community-level risk for COVID-19 mortality in the United States.
Code, consequences, and the ethics of AI.
AI Squared named among the 10 hottest AI startups of 2022.
The entrepreneur behind AI Squared’s $13.8 million round.
Accountable AI.
A research agenda.
Four current areas, connected by a question:
how do we make powerful systems trustworthy and useful?
AI Governance
Can AI agents maintain authorized behavior as incentives, context, and pressure change?
Research, contributions & chronologyAI IP Attribution
Can expert-grounded attribution and traceable rights evidence protect IP while keeping legitimate work usable?
Research, contributions & chronologyIn the conversation.
On building companies, putting AI to work,
and the possibilities ahead.
Research with a
world beyond the paper.
From cloud-scale genomics to population health.
Read the original work. Follow the evidence.
5 publications
2022
Nature Genetics
Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies
Connecting genetic variation and the plasma proteome across ancestry groups to support proteome-wide association studies.
Authors & citation
J. Zhang, D. Dutta, A. Köttgen, A. Tin, P. Schlosser, M. Grams, B. Harvey, B. Yu, E. Boerwinkle, J. Coresh, N. Chatterjee & the CKDGen Consortium
Nature Genetics · 54, 593–602 · 10.1038/s41588-022-01051-w
2021
Nature Medicine
Individual and community-level risk for COVID-19 mortality in the United States
A framework for understanding how individual risk and community context shape COVID-19 mortality risk.
Authors & citation
J. Jin, N. Agarwala, P. Kundu, B. Harvey, Y. Zhang, E. Wallace & N. Chatterjee
Nature Medicine · 27, 264–269 · Published online December 2020 · 10.1038/s41591-020-01191-8
2017
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Cloud-Scale Genomic Signals Processing for Robust Large-Scale Cancer Genomic Microarray Data Analysis
Using scalable computing to make large-scale cancer genomic analysis more practical.
Authors & citation
Benjamin Simeon Harvey & Soo-Yeon Ji
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics · 21(1) · First published online in 2015 · 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2496323
2014
IEEE EMBC
Cloud-scale genomic signals processing classification analysis for gene expression microarray data
Exploring cloud-scale classification methods for gene expression microarray data.
Authors & citation
Benjamin Harvey & Soo-Yeon Ji
IEEE EMBC · Proceedings, 7152–7155 · 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943968
2014
IJISET / arXiv
A Review of CUDA, MapReduce, and Pthreads Parallel Computing Models
A comparative review of three approaches to parallel computation and their implementation tradeoffs.
Authors & citation
Kato Mivule, Benjamin Harvey, Crystal Cobb & Hoda El Sayed
IJISET / arXiv · IJISET 1(8), 208–217 · arXiv:1410.4453
Publication years follow the journal issue; earlier online dates are noted. This collection brings together the publications identified in my research record.
A career connected
by curiosity.
Different environments.
The same drive to make an idea useful.
2008–2015
A foundation in science.
Computer science at Mississippi Valley State and Bowie State. Bioinformatics research training through Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology, followed by work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the NIH.
- B.S., Computer Science · Mississippi Valley State University, 2008
- M.S., Computer Science · Bowie State University, 2011
- D.Sc., Computer Science · Bowie State University, 2015
Ideas become
organizations.
Building the teams and technology
to move important work forward.
AI Squared
Founder & former CEOBringing AI into the applications and workflows where people already work.
AI Laboratories
Research & venture buildingA home for turning ambitious AI ideas into companies and useful systems.
Spyris
Mission-focused technologyConnecting technology and the people responsible for delivering on a mission.
Archetypal
Intelligence under commandExploring AI systems designed around purposeful, human-directed work.
Notes from
the work.
Research agenda · 8 min read
Governing AI. Tracing contributions. Building the next research chapter.
How my work through Spyris, Archetypal, and NSA technology collaboration connects to the research I want to pursue at GW.
September 22, 2026
Research notes · 4 min readResearch only travels as far as people can use it.
Three connections across genomics, population health, and the systems that bring research into practice.
September 22, 2026
Building AI · 3 min readThe distance between a model and a decision.
Useful AI needs more than a prediction. It needs a place in the work.
September 22, 2026
Good things start
with a conversation.
Research collaborations. Speaking. Building something that matters.