Feb 2026: Excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk in the Machine Learning in Genomics session at the Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics Conference 2026 at UC Berkeley! My talk is titled “Predicting dynamic expression patterns in budding yeast with a fungal DNA language model.”

Oct 2025: Our OpenSpliceAI Version of Record is now published in eLife—an open-source PyTorch framework for fast, modular splice-site prediction, transfer learning, and variant-effect scoring! Check out the GitHub and docs.

Sep 2025: I’m excited to share our new preprint on Shorkie—a semi-supervised framework that predicts RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence in S. cerevisiae.

Aug 2025: Excited to announce I’ve joined Illumina Artificial Intelligence Lab as a Senior Deep Learning Scientist & Engineer.

Aug 2025: Heart full—I defended my PhD at Johns Hopkins on August 25, 2025. I’m deeply thankful to my advisors, Steven Salzberg & Mihaela Pertea; my committee—Ben Langmead, David Kelley, and Anqi Liu; labmates, friends, and family—for your unwavering support.

Aug 2025: Friends, I’m thrilled to invite you to my public dissertation talk, “Decoding the Language of Genomes: Bridging Sequences and Function through Deep Learning” on August 25th. Hope to see you there!