Benjamin Man

/bɛnd͡ʒəmɪn mæn/

Computer Science and Linguistics @ UCLA '27

Hi, I'm Ben. I'm a student at UCLA, and I'm passionate about creative design and making an impact. I'm always looking for new opportunities to learn and grow. Check out some things I've worked on.

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This is a p5.js visualization of map pathfinding algorithms. You're probably looking at San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York City.

The map data is from OpenStreetMap's Overpass API, with reverse geocoding also from OSM.

Click the circle or triangle to change the origin or destination. You can also set the map to wherever you like with the input box in the bottom right corner.

This is a p5.js visualization of maze generation and solver algorithms. The maze is generated using depth-first search.

The A* algorithm uses a heuristic function of Manhattan distance, which is displayed in each visited cell of the maze.

This is a p5.js simulation of some balls bouncing around a polar curve, particularly a Rose curve of the form

\( r(\theta) = 1 + \frac{\sin(a \theta)}{a} \)

where \( a \) is the number of petals.

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Work

Esri

Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2025

Incoming intern on the ArcGIS for Adobe Creative Cloud team.

California Geological Survey

Software Engineer Student Assistant

January 2025 - present

Building and maintaining earthquake data tools for the Center for Engineering Strong Motion Data (CESMD). I work with PHP, Perl, MySQL, and Javascript to create intuitive web services retrieving data from California's 1,400 strong motion stations for over 20,000 engineers, geologists, and other members of the seismology community.