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

Algorithm visualizers

Interactive pedagogical tools I've built to help students and researchers develop visual intuition for sequence alignment, genome assembly, seed indexing, and probabilistic models.

Minimizer Sampling & Collinear DP ChainingMinimap2 Core
(w, k)-minimizer DP anchor chaining for long-read alignment.
FM-Index & BWT Backward SearchBowtie / BWA Core
Burrows-Wheeler transform with LF-mapping for sublinear search.
Needleman-Wunsch & Smith-Waterman AlignmentGlobal & Local DP
Global (NW) and local (SW) exact 2D dynamic programming with affine gap scoring.
Profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs)Plan 7 Architecture
Plan 7 domain modeling, Viterbi decoding & posterior state probabilities.

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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