Giving back

Teaching & mentorship

Courses I've taught as a teaching assistant, students I've mentored, and the peer-review community I contribute to. I'm always glad to mentor students interested in computational genomics + AI.

Teaching assistant experience

Jan–May 2023

Computing the Transcriptome (EN.580.458 / 658)

Teaching Assistant · Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD
Feb–Jun 2019

Data Science Programming (CSX 4001)

Teaching Assistant · National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan
Sep 2018 – Jan 2019

Cornerstone EECS Design and Implementation (EE 1006)

Teaching Assistant · National Taiwan University · Taipei, Taiwan

Mentorship & community

Alan Mao

JHU Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering undergrad (2023–2025); now a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Data Science at Stanford.
JHU Deep Learning + Genomics Study Group

Co-founder and organizer (with Mahler Revsine) of a biweekly deep-learning + genomics seminar at Johns Hopkins (Oct 2024 – Aug 2025), hosting speakers to spark discussion among researchers working at the intersection of deep learning and genomics.

Slides Repository Schedule

Peer review

Reviewer and sub-reviewer for, among others:

Cell Reports Methods
Journal of Translational Medicine
PLOS ONE
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
BMC Bioinformatics
BMC Genomics
Scientific Reports
Genome Research
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Nature Machine Intelligence
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Chromatographia