Resume

Benjamin Cooper

Data Scientist | Applied AI in Healthcare

Applying AI and machine learning to real healthcare challenges. I build agentic systems, predictive models, and analytics solutions that help teams make better, faster decisions.

About

I'm a Data Scientist focused on applied AI in healthcare — from helping train teams on a company-wide agentic AI system to applying ML and predictive modeling to real clinical and product challenges. Currently a Data Health Partner at Arcadia, I support data processes for national customers covering over 30 million lives and contribute as a developer on an internal AI agentic harness.

Previously at Boston Children's Hospital, I built dashboards and reports that enabled data-driven decisions across departments, facilitated a state-run Medicaid program that captured over $25 million for the hospital, and led analytics for the US News & World Report Pediatric Hospital Survey submission.

I'm completing an MS in Data Science in Biomedicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine as a Biodesign AI Fellow (expected Dec 2026), deepening my expertise in applying advanced AI and analytics to biomedical challenges.

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Featured Projects

A selection of recent work demonstrating my approach to data-driven problem solving.

Project Hairy Hope

A No-Shave November fundraiser platform I built to raise money for men's health charities. Features community voting, weekly photo uploads, progress tracking, and raised over $1,300 for causes like the Testicular Cancer Society and mental health organizations.

Next.js Supabase Stripe

Article Reader

A desktop app that converts research PDFs into natural audio narrations. Uses AI to structure academic papers into spoken-friendly scripts with text-to-speech synthesis, batch processing, and a built-in script editor for pre-synthesis review.

Python Gemini Text-to-Speech

Productivity Tracker

A full-stack task management application with BI dashboard. Visualizes task completion metrics with interactive charts and KPI badges, backed by PostgreSQL.

Node.js PostgreSQL Chart.js

AI Cover Letter Generator

An AI-powered cover letter generator that creates tailored, professional cover letters in under 30 seconds. Built to streamline the job application process with personalized content.

Python OpenAI Streamlit

Double Pendulum Simulator

A browser-based physics simulator demonstrating chaotic behavior using PyScript. Features interactive parameter controls, real-time trail tracking, and 4th-order Runge-Kutta integration — no server required.

PyScript Canvas API Physics

Live Spectrum Analyzer

A real-time audio spectrum analyzer and waterfall display that runs entirely in the browser. Analyzes live microphone input, a built-in signal generator, or a dropped audio file through a configurable 1k–32k FFT, with A-weighting, log or linear frequency scaling, parabolic peak interpolation, live note detection, and tap-to-place markers that dimension the span between two tones.

Web Audio API Canvas API DSP

Camera PPG Monitor

Measures a pulse waveform from a fingertip using nothing but a phone camera and torch. Reduces each frame to a red-channel ROI mean, resamples the irregular frame timing onto a uniform grid, and recovers heart rate and respiration by FFT — with a signal quality score that says when not to trust the number.

MediaDevices API DSP Biosignals

Conway's Game of Life

An interactive browser simulation of Conway's Game of Life. Features a double-buffered toroidal grid, adjustable generation speed, click-to-draw cells, a pattern library (Glider, Gosper Glider Gun, Pulsar, and more), and live generation and population readouts — no server required.

Canvas API Cellular Automata JavaScript

Super Bowl Squares

An interactive Super Bowl Squares game with real-time square claiming, probability heat maps, and a live game grid. Features historical score analysis to visualize each square's winning odds.

JavaScript Supabase Data Viz