Originally from Southern California, Ben’s exposure to design, engineering, and fabrication in his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley led to a position at
Lundberg Design, a design/build architecture firm in San Francisco. Having honed metal and wood fabrication skills, he then moved to Los Angeles to pursue large scale digital fabrication as a project manager with
Ball Nogues Studio. Following this, he worked as a structural engineer at
NOUS engineering, before entering a Master’s of Science program in Civil Engineering at MIT.
There, he was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
NSTRF, which allowed him to focus on advanced structural concepts and robotic assembly systems. After completing his
SM , he began his doctoral studies at the
Center for Bits and Atoms, advised by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld.
He is currently living in Seattle, WA with his wife and dog
Yoko, and is developing a start-up to commercialize lattice production based on the technologies developed at MIT.