Author of 5 books including: 32 Innovation Factors and The Four Elements of Thinking. His book, Renewable Energies in 90 minutes, can be found in the Library of Congress. Ben has been published in the Bell Labs Technology Journal.
He holds three patents: 7443804B2, 8755805B2 and 9918232. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, American Sign Language and English. He was the Heroclix (Chess like game) World champion in 2008. He has been to 30 countries around the world on 6 continents.
Ben holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Walden. He worked at General Electric Medical systems in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a development engineer working on calculations software for ultrasound Systems. In 1996, he joined Lucent Technologies in Whippany, New Jersey working on wireless cell phone systems, TDMA (2G), as a development engineer.
Then, he became a systems architect engineer and was promoted to a distinguished member of the technical staff. Lucent merged with Alcatel in 2007 and then Nokia in 2016. He is currently a systems architect working on 5G and ONAP in Murray Hill (NJ), where Bell Labs is headquartered.
