Jake Beal

Background

About Jake Beal

I am an Engineering Fellow at RTX BBN Technologies (formerly Raython BBN, formerly BBN Technologies). I am also a research affiliate of the University of Iowa. Previously, I was also a research affiliate of MIT, where I did my graduate and postdoctoral work.The uniting theme of my research is "engineered self-organization," which is the production of predictable aggregate behavior from locally interacting elements. At present, my investigations are mainly in the domains of biosecurity (especially nucleic acid screening and point-of-need bioinformatics) and synthetic biology (the predictive engineering of desired behaviors in living cells). Previous research subjects have included work on aggregate and spatial computing (the description and control of systems of many weakly connected computing devices, and an extension of amorphous computing), as well as on human-like intelligence and various learning and reasoning systems.