Benjamin W. Christensen

Grüezi voll, and welcome to my website! I am a 2023 graduate of Yale University, and a graduate student at ETH Zürich. As a researcher, I am interested in solving practical problems using machine learning in a fashion that relies heavily on fundamentals from mathematics, physics, and statistics. I am also experienced in international gastronomy, Cuban salsa, musical composition, agriculture, and geography, while being a multi-instrumentalist and language enthusiast in my free time. While I currently live in Zürich, Switzerland, my hometown is Rochester, New York, and I have spent time as a temporary resident of Silicon Valley, Connecticut, Romania, and Türkiye.

Details

Nationality: United States of America

Work Authorization: United States, Canton of Zürich (Switzerland)

Civil Status: Single

Education

M.S. Statistics - ETH Zürich (2023 - 2025)

B.S. Statistics & Data Science (with distinction) - Yale University (2019 - 2023)

Languages

English (fluent)

French (conversational)

German, Turkish, Spanish (intermediate)

Polish, Russian, Ukrainian (amateur)

Travels

United States, Canada (birth - 2008)

Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, France, Mexico, The Bahamas, Honduras, Belize, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Jamaica (2009 - 2017)

Spain, Morocco (2018)

Monaco, Italy (2019)

Panama (2022)

Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Czechia, Türkiye (2023)

Poland, Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Moldova (including Transnistria), Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Denmark, Iraq (Kurdistan), Portugal (2024)

Vatican City, Malta, Slovenia, Israel, Palestine (West Bank) (2025)

Social Media

LinkedIn: benjwc

Google Scholar: Benjamin Christensen

Github: bdotchristensen

Travel Catalogue: /catalogue