Benson Hill CTO Jason Bull on Machine Learning Changing Food From Plant to Plate
Jason Bull is Chief Technology Officer of Benson Hill, a St. Louis-based food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants thru its cutting-edge food innovation engine. Jason leads the company’s combined R&D and Data Science capabilities across predictive breeding, genomics, product discovery, big data engineering and software development. Prior to joining Benson Hill, he served as VP, Strategy & Machine Learning at Object Computing, Inc. and before that spent twenty years with Bayer (Monsanto) and then Climate Corporation, most recently as its Global VP R&D of Digital Seed Science. Jason has been granted 30 patents in digital agriculture, molecular breeding and robotic seed chipping and has also authored 15 publications. He earned his Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics and Biometrics and a Bachelors Degree in AgSci (Honors) in Quantitative Genetics and Analytics from the University of Queensland in Australia.