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Dr. Zitong Wang’s computational
biology group at Westlake University Center for Interdisciplinary Studies is
seeking 1-2 research assistants with strong computational skills.Please email us at jerry@westlake.edu.cn with a CV and a brief description of how your career
plans align with our mission.Our mission is to understand and
improve life by simulating it. It's a challenge so vast that the path forward
isn't always clear, but that's part of the excitement. To tackle the complexity
of the human body, we work across multiple diseases and organs, applying tools
from molecular biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science as necessary.
Recent projects include identifying perturbations that drive T cell infiltration
using explainable AI, predicting molecular drivers of tumor metastasis by
applying tissue mechanics model to multiplexed tissue imaging, and building
generative DNA models for de novo design of plasmid sequences encoding
user-specified functions.Lab website：
https://cellethology.github.io/Zitong (Jerry) Wang earned his Bachelor of Health
Sciences from McMaster University before completing his Ph.D. in Systems
Biology with a minor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech in
2024. At Caltech, he worked with Matt Thomson on AI methods to predict cancer
therapies using multiplexed tumor imaging. Jerry also collaborated with Romain
Lopez and Aviv Regev at Genentech, developing a contrastive learning framework
for high-content CRISPR perturbation screens. Following his Ph.D., Jerry joined
Recursion, where he worked with Kian Kenyon-Dean and Oren Kraus on tools to
optimize large-scale vision models. Jerry was selected for a Schmidt Postdoctoral
Fellowship by the Broad Institute. He joined Westlake University as an
independent fellow in Winter 2024.Personal page:
https://en.westlake.edu.cn/faculty/Zitong-Wang.html
Position and
responsibility1. 招聘岗位：research assistants/科研助理（1-2名）扎实的编程能力, 最好具备丰富的机器学习和深度学习实践经验
对解决生物问题具有浓厚兴趣，建议具有生命科学研究经验
具备扎实的定量分析能力，建议具有定量领域的学位（工程、计算、统计等）
Please email us at jerry@westlake.edu.cn with a CV and a brief description of
how your career plans align with our mission.Westlake University is China’s first private
research-oriented university established in Hangzhou, China in 2018. The Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) at Westlake focuses on the emerging fields
across the boundaries between physical science, biological science, artificial
intelligence, and complex systems, and is dedicated to creating an environment
that encourages foundational theoretical and groundbreaking experimental work.
