Ben Cordier is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) pre-doctoral fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. He received a BA in psychology, with a concentration in neuropsychology, from Whittier College in 2011 and an MS in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology from Oregon Health & Science University in 2017. Prior to coming to OHSU, Ben worked as a software developer creating immersive data visualizations, websites, games, and other forms of interactive media for the Web.

His current research projects include the application of quantum algorithms to computational problems in biomedicine. Broad research interests include cancer genomics, quantum algorithms, quantum simulation, machine learning, computational complexity, open source software, and scientific reproducibility.