Genomic foundation models
Pretraining and adapting models for genomic representation learning and biological applications.
Research opportunities
Research intern recruitment
Work on AI for AI for Medical Science.
I host research interns working on genomic foundation models, DNA/RNA sequence design, and recursively self-improving AI agents. GPU resources are available for research experiments.
Research areas
Scientific sequence design
Guided generation and optimization of DNA/RNA sequences.
AI agents and model infrastructure
Connecting AI agents with tools for training, evaluating, and deploying genomic models.
How to apply
Email your CV and a short summary of your research experience and interests to wwm@u.northwestern.edu.
Email me ↗Past mentees
Sophia Pi ↗ · 2026
Northwestern University → Computer Science Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. A paper at NeurIPS 2024 ↗.
Xuefeng Song · 2026
Northwestern University → Computer Science Ph.D., Michigan State University. Coauthor of Genome-Factory and Sci2Pol.
Maojiang Su ↗ · 2025
University of Science and Technology of China → Computer Science Ph.D., Northwestern University. First-author paper at ICML 2025 ↗.
Morris Huang ↗ · 2024
National Taiwan University → Computer Science Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. First-author paper at ICLR 2025 ↗.