about
current position
Dr. Benjamin Harvey currently serves as a Data Scientist and architect for the Department of Defense (DoD) within the National Security Agency (NSA). He is also part of the University of Maryland Medical Post-Baccalaureate program. He is current part-time faculty at George Washington University (GWU) for Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering and Department of Computer Science joint Data Analytic graduate program.
previous positions
Dr. Harvey joined the Agency in 2009 and was hired into the Cryptologic Computer Science Develop Program (CDP). He graduated from the CDP in 2012 and was the first African American to accepted and to finish the program.
research background
Dr. Harvey conducted research at Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) program in 2008. He was a Bioinformatics Post-Baccalaureate Research-Fellow in 2009 with i2b2, National Center for Biomedical Computing, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program (CHIP) with an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. He also completed a Clinical Informatics Research-Fellowship in 2010 at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Clinical Center within the Department of Clinical Research Informatics (DCRI).
ecucation
Dr. Harvey graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 2008 with a B.S. in Pre-Medicine & Computer Science. He received a Master of Science in Computer Science from Bowie State University in 2011 and Doctorate of Science in Computer Science from Bowie State University in 2015. His dissertation was entitled “Cloud Scale Genomic Signals Processing for Robust Microarray Data Analysis.” He also holds a Cryptologic Computer Science Certificate from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in conjunction with the Naval Post-Graduate School (NPS).
