Research
- Finishing and defending the dissertation. The defense is set for 22 October 2026, so this is the thing everything else fits around.
- Writing up the lineage-specific gene chapter, with the field nursery data now in from a full season. Next on the list is Ribo-seq for translation evidence, which is the piece the current story is missing.
- Pushing the codon language model stress-testing further after giving two talks at IOB last month: the asymmetry between the virus and host classes, a properly constructed dataset and task set, and whether the read-out can be moved by objective rather than by scale. The manuscript is back in revision.
- Consulting part-time with the Computational Biology Consulting Group at IOB, currently building a 16S metagenomics pipeline for a mouse gut microbiome dataset.
After the defense
I want to keep working on the evaluation and interpretation of models over biological sequence data, in a setting where that question gets taken seriously. My resume has the compressed version of the work so far, and the about page has the longer one.
Away from the desk
Powerlifting, badminton, and yoga, roughly in that order of stubbornness. I read more manga than I should, mostly while waiting for Claude Code to finish a task. Katseye has been on repeat while I work.
Grad school has taught me that good research and good communities both get better when people share ideas, try strange things, and learn from each other, so I am easy to reach and glad to be reached.
This is a now page. It goes stale; the date above tells you how stale.