Benjamin Cordier

  • Senior Computational Biologist, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, School of Medicine
  • Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine

Biography

Ben Cordier earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU as a pre-doctoral fellow of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He received an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology from Oregon Health & Science University in 2017 and a BA in psychology, with a concentration in neuropsychology, from Whittier College in 2011. 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 work centers on the application of quantum computing to problems in biomedicine, the watermarking of data to enable ethical AI and sensitive data re-use, and serving as a core developer for Fairhub.io.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • Ph.D., 2022, Oregon Health & Science University
    • M.S., 2017, Oregon Health & Science University
    • B.A., 2011, Whittier College

  • Fellowship

    • NLM/NIEHS Pre-Doctoral Fellow (2017 - 2022)

Areas of interest

  • cancer genomics
  • quantum computation
  • AI/machine learning
  • computational complexity
  • open source software
  • scientific reproducibility

Additional information

Honors and awards

  • Best Open Mic Presentation, NLM Informatics Training Conference 2018
  • Student Design Challenge Finalist, AMIA 2015
  • AWWWARDS Honorable Mention, Site of The Day
  • 2011 Whittier Psi Chi Review Excellence Award: For Excellence in Research & Writing

Publications

Selected publications

  • AI-READI Consortium. AI-READI: rethinking AI data collection, preparation and sharing in diabetes research and beyond. Nature Metabolism. 2024 Nov 8:1-3.
  • McWeeney S, Perciano T, Susut C, Chatterjee L, Fornari M, Biven L, Siwy C. Quantum Computing for Biomedical Computational and Data Sciences: A Joint DOE-NIH Roundtable. USDOE Office of Science (SC)(United States); 2023 Dec 20.
  • Cordier BA, Sawaya NP, Guerreschi GG, McWeeney SK. Biology and medicine in the landscape of quantum advantages. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2022 Nov 30;19(196):20220541.
  • Patel B, Soundarajan S, McWeeney S, Cordier BA, Benton ES. Software Development Best Practices of the AI-READI Project. Zenodo. 2022.
  • Choonoo G, Blucher AS, Higgins S, Boardman M, Jeng S, Zheng C, Jacobs J, Anderson A, Chamberlin S, Evans N, Vigoda M. Illuminating biological pathways for drug targeting in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Plos one. 2019 Oct 9;14(10):e0223639.
  • Bergholm V, Izaac J, Schuld M, Gogolin C, Ahmed S, Ajith V, Alam MS, Alonso-Linaje G, AkashNarayanan B, Asadi A, Arrazola JM. Pennylane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04968. 2018 Nov 12.

Publications