Bioinformatics (Computational Virology) Researcher

Data Science Engineer, January 2024 - April 2024

RNALab, Dr. Artem Babaian, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Description:

I worked under Dr. Artem Babaian on applying machine learning techniques to the field of computational virology.

We explored the use of text embeddings to uncover hidden trends in the metadata of bioprojects from the Sequence Read Archive.

This research focused on unsupervised learning techniques, and the development of a novel contrastive learning method for the purpose of understanding the trends and clusters that emerge.

Throughout this, I came to the understanding that text embeddings are fickle, and can be manipulated mathematically in semantically interesting ways.

This research won me a University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA), which I turned down.