CV
General Information
Full Name | Alexander Po-Yen Wu |
Interests | Graph machine learning, causal inference, biological networks, biomolecular design |
Education
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2023
PhD in Computational and Systems Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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2018
SM in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics
Harvard University
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2016
BS in Operations Research, Minor in Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
Experience
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Sept 2018-May 2023
Graduate Research Assistant
Computer Science and Artificial Intellience Laboratory, MIT
- Graph machine learning and causal inference for studying single-cell gene regulatory dynamics
- Enhancer-gene interactions for interpreting effects of noncoding disease variants on gene dysregulation
- Causal TF-gene interactions using RNA velocity graphs to uncover patterns of gene regulatory timing
- Single-cell multi-omic profiling of CRISPR perturbations to chromatin remodelers in cancer
- Bayesian methods for reconstructing gene regulatory networks in small sample size settings
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Jan 2023-June 2023
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Jun 2022-Oct 2022
Machine Learning Research Intern
Twitter Cortex
- Causal graph machine learning for improving the performance of graph attention networks
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Jun 2018-Aug 2018
Deep Learning Intern
Quantum-Si
- Machine learning on biological knowledge graphs for protein function prediction