Hongzhi Wen
Chief AI Scientist & Co-founder at CartaBio
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHongzhi Wen is a PhD-trained AI scientist and co-founder leading CartaBio’s machine learning efforts, with nine years of industry experience spanning applied research and product-focused internships at Amazon, TigerGraph, DiDi, and others. His academic foundation—B.A. and B.S. from Peking University and a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State—supports a research focus on foundation models and single-cell biology, bridging large-scale AI with computational biology. Based in Seattle, he brings hands-on expertise in deploying ML research into startup products, having transitioned from research intern roles into a founder-scientist position within a year. Notably, his background combines NLP and graph/ML internships with biomedical modeling, reflecting a rare cross-domain skill set that accelerates translation of foundational models to life-science applications.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (31)
transformers10
dance10
spatial-transcriptomics10
machine-learning10
text-to-speech10
transformer10
pytorch9
amd9
inference9
llama9
single-cell-analysis9
bioinformatics9
deep-learning9
gpt9
computational-biology9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wehos/awesome-graph-transformer
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Papers about graph transformers.
Contributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 1 month
deep-learninggraph-mininggraph-neural-networksgraph-transformermachine-learning
wehos/fish-speech
Mar 2024 - May 2024
Brand new TTS solution
Contributions:5 PRs, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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