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Welcome to Ben's website!
I am a final year PhD student in computer science, and am deeply interested in distributed algorithms and their emergent behaviors.
Previously, I have spent a lot of time building better consensus protocols (i.e. think Paxos, PBFT, but better). My protocols are the fastest and simplest in the literature. Variants are now taught at leading universities (in distributed systems classes) and also deployed by (some pretty big players in) industry.
I am also deeply interested in the inner workings of Transformers, and have spent a lot of time hacking on and training models from scratch.