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!
Jul 2025: Our OpenSpliceAI paper is now live 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.
Jun 2025: Thrilled to share that the JHU Computer Science Department has spotlighted LiftOn—our new tool for accurate cross-species genome annotation transfer—in their news article: Solving the Bottleneck in Genome Biology.
