Dissertation advice by Olin Shivers

Dissertation advice by Anne Rogers [NYT version]

Thesis Proposal advice by H.C. Lauer

Why get a PhD? by Matthias Felleisen

Presentation advice by Leslie Lamport

Grad school advice by Manuel Blum

"Finishing your PhD is the least embarrassing way to get out of grad school" - James H. Morris


Born in Albany, NY in February 1991.

Lived in Delmar, NY until 2009, with the dad (Wes), mom (Lisa), brother (Ryan), sister (Nicole), Oreo, and BA. Attended Elsmere Elementary, Bethlehem Middle School, and Bethlehem High School.

Lived in Albany, NY until Fall 2010.

Lived in Ithaca, NY until Fall 2014, at the 408.

Lived in Brighton, MA until Spring 2021, at Towne Estates with: Sarah, Little Bear, and Littler Bear. Married Sarah on June 1 2019.

Lived in Newton, MA until Summer 2022, at The Newton House. Baby Ellis joined the party on May 9 2021.

Lived between Smyrna, DE (basement) and Alexandria, VA (standing) until Summer 2023 at grandma's home and at Riverside Tower 2.

Currently in Salt Lake City, UT. Baby Marion joined the party on January 31 2024.


Photo Gallery

PRL Blog

Brown PLT Blog

2021-11-29: Faculty application materials

2019-10-03: Brief summary of my work on migratory typing

GitHub bennn ("ben" + the n's from my last name, kinda like lllee)

GitLab

Math Genealogy

Video game world records

Skateboarding videos

CV of failures

"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few."
  "[Young Flanagan] you my friend are a worker! Look how tasty your cocktails are."

What people think programming is vs. how it actually is

"Stop. Why do you have milk?"  Yi Ding, PLDI 2022

Poems in:

Bank of San Serriffe balance: 0x$0.40

Advent of Code leaderboard: 2017/4, 2017/14

Amazing CSS/JS animation stolen from iohk.io.