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Resume:
Ben Klemens
DC *****
***@*******.***
http://ben.klemens.org/
Employment
Statistician, Principal Researcher, U.S. Census Bureau Center for Statistical Research
and Methodology 2009 present
General research in statistical computing. With colleagues, developed TEA, a uni ed system
for editing, imputation, and disclosure avoidance for surveys. Developed a new measure of
interrater agreement. Developed software for log linear models on tables with millions or
billions of cells.
Senior Statistician, National Institute of Mental Health 2006 09
Analysis of large volumes of genetic data, at the Genetic Basis of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Unit of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution 2003 09
Projects on smoking, open source software, voting, and other applications of peer e ects, at
the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics.
Executive Director, End Software Patents Project 2006 07
Conduct public education and legislative/legal a airs aimed at the elimination of software
from patent-eligible subject matter.
Consulting Scientist, Policy Analytics LLC 2005 06
Projects on growth projections for Chicago Metro area, and casinos and crime.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Economics, Johns Hopkins 2004 05
Research on group formation and identity; teaching classes in Game Theory and conviviality.
Contractor, World Bank 2004 05
Agent-based modeling of immigration between Europe and Central-Asia.
Teaching Assistant, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Caltech 2000 03
Graded and corrected problem sets in Microeconomics, Law, Psychology, and Anthropology.
Occasionally lectured on topics such as basic Microeconomics, the Bretton Woods institu-
tions, and multidimensional scaling.
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Research Assistant to Michael Chwe, Dept of Politics, New York University 2000
Wrote a series of R scripts to test hypotheses regarding ogging in the US Navy.
Risk Control Analyst, ABN AMRO, Inc 1998-99
Designed and implemented a Value at Risk engine for equities, options, and xed income
instruments. Reported to management on daily activity in all departments of the rm,
including the trading of listed, OTC, and pink sheet equities, forex, US and local government
bonds, and mutual fund management.
Research assistant to Dali Yang, Political Science Dept, University of Chicago 1992-95
Compiled data and literature on China and its transition to a market economy. Focused on
the expansion of the tobacco trade.
Education
California Institute of Technology June 2003
PhD in Social Sciences
Harvard University July-August 2002
Participation in the Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute, Center
for Basic Research in the Social Sciences.
California Institute of Technology June 2001
MS in Social Sciences
University of Chicago June 1996
BA in Economics, Dean s list. Included ten graduate-level courses, with focus on growth
and development.
London School of Economics 1995-1996
Exchange program with University of Chicago. Included graduate classes in Labour Eco-
nomics.
Books
Ben Klemens. 21st Century C. O Reilly Media, September 2012.
Ben Klemens. Modeling with Data: Tools and Techniques for Scienti c Computing. Prince-
ton University Press, October 2008.
Ben Klemens. Math You Can t Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software. Brookings Institution
Press, November 2005.
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Papers
Ben Klemens. Mutual Information as a Measure of Intercoder Agreement. Journal of O cial
Statistics, Forthcoming.
Ben Klemens. The Rise of the Information Processing patent. Boston University Journal of
Science and Technology Law, 14:1, pp 1 37, January 2008.
Ben Klemens. Finding optimal agent-based models. Brookings Institution Center on Social
and Economic Dynamics Working Paper #49, September 2007.
AE Baum, N Akula, M Cabanero, I Cardona, W Corona, B Klemens, TG Schulze, S Ci-
chon, M Rietschel, MM Nathen, A Georgi, J Schumacher, M Schwarz, R Abou Jamra, S
Hofels, P Propping, J Satagopan, NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium,
SD Detera-Wadleigh, J Hardy, and FJ McMahon. A genome-wide association study im-
plicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar
disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, v13, pp 1 2, May 2007.
Ben Klemens. U.S. expanding the law domestic and foreign to bene t corporations. San
Fransisco Chronicle, p E5, 17 February 2008.
Ben Klemens. U.S. Patent Imperialism Hurts American Interests. Washinton Post, Online
Edition, 25 August 2006.
Ben Klemens. Patently O ensive. Worth, p 38, June 2006.
Ben Klemens. The Gravity of the U.S. Patent Swindle. Wall Street Journal, p A9, 25 March
2006.
Ben Klemens. New Legal Code. IEEE Spectrum, pp 60-62, August 2005.
Ben Klemens. Software Patents Don t Compute. IEEE Spectrum, pp 56-59, July 2005.
Ben Klemens. Dissertation: Information Aggregation, with Application to Monotone Order-
ing, Advocacy, and Conviviality. California Institute of Technology, May 2003.
Programs
TEA Work in Progress
A package for post-processing surveys, including integrated steps for error detection, imputa-
tion of missing or bad values, and preventing disclosure of personally identi able information.
Apophenia Work in Progress
A large library of statistical functions, with a focus on model design.
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A simulation of immigration October 2004
An agent-based model of job search and remittances throughout the EU and Central Asia,
to test and advise policy modi cations.
Cowsweeper January 2003
A variant of Minesweeper, written for PalmOS, and available from many online sources. It
is fun.
Writing appendices in LaTeX March 2002
A macro package for that facilitates moving the proofs of theorems to an appendix. Available
from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (www.ctan.org).
October 2008.
Ben Klemens. Math You Can’t Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software. Brookings Institution
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