benjamin luckow

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I'm a software engineer from Long Island, New York with a range of multidisciplinary interests and experiences.

Over the past 6 years I've developed a passion for working with others to engineer solutions to problems in operations research, politics, and finance including crawling the web for news data, building models for anything from voter districts to discounted cash flows, and architecting systems and collaboration tools for analysts and engineers.

I attended Cornell Engineering from 2020 to 2024 where I graduated with a B.S. Computer Science and minors in Operations Research and Business.

While at Cornell, I...

  • served as a Representative at Large on the Student Assembly from 2021 to 2023, and as the sole engineering scholar at the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs under former congressional representative Steve Israel in 2022.
  • was a data engineer on the Ithaca Carbon Neutral 2030 team in 2021 and 2022, where I used cutting edge Python libraries for data science and operations research to optimize heat retention and electricity costs in Ithaca homes and streamlined this data to guide city policy.
  • was the sector lead for energy and telecomms at Cornell Equity Research in 2022 and 2023, where I built financial models and oversaw reports for over a dozen undergraduate.