John Wang

Experience

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  Portland State University

  Jul 2020 - Aug 2021

  Researcher

  - Annotated and analyzed cruciviruses and some ssRNA viruses obtained from data mining and metagenomic samples. - Used various software to detect known capsid and replication genes as well as other genetic sites. - Wrote scripts to document sequence data, parse data sets to increase annotation efficiency, and automatically annotate sequences with HMM Biosequence Analysis.

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  Stanford University

  Feb 2022 - Mar 2024

  Stanford Adventure Programs Employee

  Outdoor Center Specialist: - Managed gear, rentals, and aided group trip logistics for Stanford program trips

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

  Undergraduate Researcher - Center for Undiagnosed Diseases

  Worked with the Undiagnosed Disease Network (Wheeler/Ashley group) to analyze immune cell type frequencies and patterns in rare diseases.

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  Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)

  Jun 2022 - Jun 2023

  Undergraduate Researcher

  Undergraduate Researcher in the Dror Lab researching methods for improving AlphaFold models for ligand docking. Experiments in binding pocket refinement through restrained MD simulations and energy minimization. Developed pipelines to improve AlphaFold ligand-docking performance across broad protein families.

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  Virtualitics

  Jun 2023 - Dec 2023

  Data Science Intern

  Built generalized predictive maintenance model pipelines with survival analysis models and real-time signal processing across a wide range of data formats.

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  Arc Institute

  Apr 2024 - now

  Undergraduate Researcher

  Laboratory of Evolutionary Design - Hie GroupWorking on improving models for protein design

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  Numenta

  Jun 2024 - now

  Machine Learning Research Intern

  Accelerating model inference with neuroscience-inspired processing and hybrid architectures