Funding

Grants and fellowships supporting my research.

Beckman Institute Neuro Mini-Grant

Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology · $4,400 · June 2026

Describing the Directions a Brain Model Learns: A Variance-Attribution Metric for Interpretable Neuro-AI

Supports work on interpreting the latent spaces of medical imaging models, applied to neurodegenerative disease.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), as research mentor

Student-Faculty Programs, California Institute of Technology · $8,110 · June 2026

Encoder Pretraining and Self-Supervised Learning for Radiogenomics Contrastive Learning

Funds a summer of work on encoder pretraining and self-supervised learning for our radiogenomics contrastive learning model.

Awarded to David Jin, the Caltech undergraduate I mentor, for work I proposed and supervise.

Merkin Spark Grant

Merkin Institute for Translational Research, California Institute of Technology · $10,000 · October 2025

Efficient and accurate variant detection applied to cancer transcriptomics with varseek

Supports varseek, an alignment-free method for screening sequence variants directly in RNA-seq reads, applied to cancer transcriptomes.

AI West Med Conference Grant

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California · $5,000 · February 2024

Image Imputation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks Captures Clinically Relevant Imaging Features on Computed Tomography

Funded a study of whether conditional GANs, asked to synthesize a missing CT contrast phase, reproduce the imaging features a radiologist would read from the real acquisition.

Research Medical Student Grant

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) · $6,000 · June 2023

Deep Learning Image Segmentation of Prostate Cancer Bone Metastases

Funded a year of work on automated segmentation of bone metastases in prostate cancer imaging.