Ben Cooper

Hi!

I’m a physicist, most recently working as a scientist in Andrew York’s microscopy group at Calico. The microscopy group has two major roles: to build and support a core of instruments for biologists at Calico, and to develop novel techniques and instrumentation. On the support side, I did microscope training and troubleshooting, with a particular emphasis on the open source microscope control package Micro-Manager. As a researcher, I developed computational techniques in Python for improving object reconstructions from images, giving me strong experience in signal processing, statistical inference, and optimization. Prior to Calico, my background was in condensed matter physics. In my Ph.D. under Fred Wellstood at the University of Maryland, I studied superconducting qubits both experimentally and theoretically. You can read longer summaries of my research output here.

I like mathematical thinking, modeling, reading, and learning new things.