Ben Langmead

@benlangmead.bsky.social

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Professor of Computer Science @ JHU. https://www.langmead-lab.org/ https://www.youtube.com/BenLangmead

Wellcome Genome Campus aerial shot
Danny Glover from Lethal Weapon saying "I'm getting too old for this s**t"
Table 1 from paper comparing the trade off between rows added, index size, and query speed (and cache misses)
Figure showing periodic checkpoints for id queries
Figure showing Burrows-Wheeler Matrix, corresponding move structure, and instances where rows of move structure were split so as to force thresholds to be at the top or bottom
Hardcover copy of An Introduction to String Algorithms by Carl Kingsford
View of https://www.langmead-lab.org/teaching.html
Vikram Shivakumar and I in regalia at hooding ceremony
Another lit up house from nighttime stroll
Driveway at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, with conference attendees walking to a meal
Steven Tan accepting ACM-BCB 2025 best paper award
Illustration of Burrows-Wheeler Transform and many auxiliary structures from the input string how$now$brown$cow$#
Darth Vader with light saber in red lit hallway
Group at the rally by the Lincoln Memorial
Movi (move structure based) yielding far fewer cache misses compared to SPUMONI (r-index based)
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