Experience

  1. NeuroAI Research Scientist

    Axoft, Inc.
    • Led research projects on foundation models of multimodal neural signals for disorders of consciousness.
    • Analyzed large-scale neural data such as LFP and spike signals and developed reproducible data processing pipelines.
  2. Neuroscience Research Fellow

    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
    • Trained neuroscience-inspired AI models of communication between brain areas.
    • Mechanistic interpretation of computer vision models with low-rank optimization.
  3. Algorithms Research Intern

    Enable Medicine, Menlo Park, CA
    • Applied AI methods to clinical genomics data, working towards drug discovery and patient outcome models at an early-stage startup.
    • Developed statistical and LLM-based algorithms for analyzing single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and proteomics data.
  4. Computational Neuroscience Researcher (PhD)

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    • Invented an unsupervised AI method for neuroscience data to classify sleep states.
    • Analyzed time-series and spatiotemporal data (EEG, LFP, calcium imaging) and theory for probabilistic deep learning models.
    • Managed SQL databases, group-wide codebases, and GPU servers; mentored interns and organized coding lectures.
  5. Computational Neuroscience Research Intern

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  6. Computational Neuroscience Researcher

    Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    • Trained and evaluated convolutional neural networks (CNNs) of the retina in TensorFlow and PyTorch.
  7. Software Engineering Practicum Intern

    Google, Mountain View, CA
    • Systems software engineering for deep learning model evaluation in C++ and Python.
    • Contributed to a production-scale end-to-end ML platform in TensorFlow Extended (TFX).

Education

  1. PhD Computational Biology

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    PhD Candidate in Tatiana Engel lab (https://engel-lab.princeton.edu/). My thesis was on characterizing brain states with interpretable deep representation learning methods.
    Read Thesis
  2. BS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)

    Stanford University
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
AI/ML

HuggingFace, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Flax/Jax, Weights & Biases, Hyperopt

Programming Languages

Python, C++, C, Java, Matlab, SQL, Arduino, CSS/HTML, git

Data Science & Visualization

numpy, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, pandas

HPC & SQL

Slurm, AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, MySQL, pandas

Hobbies
Baking
Art
Music
Travel
Languages
100%
English
75%
Chinese