🎒 I am a 4th year PhD student and NSF CSGrad4US fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York, advised by Prof. Itsik Pe’er and Prof. David A. Knowles. I received my Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station. During my undergraduate, I was advised by Prof. Yang Shen.

👓 My research focuses on developing interpretable machine learning methods for computational biology, particularly using sparsity and privileged representations to uncover the features and mechanisms underlying complex model predictions. I develop and apply machine learning and statistical models to understand how genomic sequence gives rise to biological function, with a particular interest in sequence-to-function modeling.

💻 After my bachelor’s, I worked at Texas Instruments, Dallas as Test/Product Engineer.

News

09/2026. Passed my PhD candidacy exam 🎉.
07/2026. Privileged Basis MRL was accepted as a spotlight at the Weight Space Symmetry Workshop at ICML 2026 in Seoul, South Korea.
06/2026. Started my research internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
05/2026. CLADES was accepted at RECOMB 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

09/2025. Awarded the NIH T15 Training Grant, supporting two years of my PhD research (2025–2027).
07/2025. Attended the North American School of Information Theory (NASIT) 2025 in Minneapolis.
04/2025. Joined RECOMB, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. Presented my paper JOLI at the RECOMB-Seq.
02/2025. Received a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science 🎉🎉.

06/2024. Joined Schrödinger’s Catalyzing Gender Equity event, presented my work on isoform quantification.
04/2024. Joined CRA-WP Grad Cohort for IDEALS Workshop, presented my work on quantifying cellular plasticity.

09/2023. Starting my PhD at Columbia University 🎉.
07/2023. Left Texas Instruments with great experiences and a lot of learnings.

12/2022. Does Inter-Protein Contact Prediction Benefit from Multi-Modal Data and Auxiliary Tasks? is accepted @ MLSB Workshop, NeurIPS’22.
08/2022. Got accepted for NSF CISE CSGrad4US fellowship which funds 3 years of my PhD.

06/2021. Starting my professional journey as a test engineer at Texas Instruments.
05/2021. Graduated from Texas A&M University with engineering honors and Magna Cum Laude.