Benjamin Hicks is a Research Software & Programming Analyst who works in Research Computing and the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton. In addition to a Ph.D. from Rutgers University during which he applied digital humanities techniques in compiling data on Roman imperial decision-making, he has worked as a systems administrator and database developer for a small non-profit and taught at several research universities and colleges throughout the United States. At Research Computing, his work focuses on R and applications supporting HPC research at Princeton.