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To see some of the projects I do in my spare time, check out Projects.
If you're looking for my teaching materials, I post my problem sets and solutions under the Teaching tab.
Happy browsing!
My main research interest lies in AI models, particularly deep neural networks, and how they might be useful for doing science (specifically, biology).
A lot of this involves understanding how AI models learn, and what we might do to extract useful scientific information from these digital learners.
I'm currently a Senior Scientist on the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning team at Genentech.
I did my PhD at Stanford, in the Computer Science department (Stanford AI Lab).
My adviser was Anshul Kundaje.
You can read my dissertation here.
I earned my undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
I majored in both computer science and integrative biology.
Myxomycete slime mold in the plasmodial stage on Hearst Ave.
Vim.
Anyone who disagrees with the perfection of Vim is either an unrefined caveperson or a spoiled dilettante.
Source: vim.org
yes | rm -r *
Why use rm -rf * when you can pipe in an endless stream of yesses?
It's another way of solving a problem that may be different, but is totally valid.
My favorite sans-serif fonts are Roboto (which this site is written in) and Laksaman.
My favorite serif font is Garamond.
Most of my code is written in Python and Bash. As it turns out, most of computational biology can be done elegantly using Coreutils and NumPy and friends.
Speaking of Bash, anyone up for a game of Russian Roulette?
bullet=$(($RANDOM % 6)); test $bullet -eq 0 && rm -rf /