Summary
Taeho Jo is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with nine years of research experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, structural biology, and AI-driven medicine, currently based at Indiana University School of Medicine. He holds a PhD from Tokyo Medical and Dental University and has led deep-learning projects that produced novel biomarkers and tools for early, multimodal diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, leveraging large-scale genomics, multi-omics, and radiology data. His work spans academia and industry—from postdocs at RIKEN, University of Missouri, and University of Michigan to earlier software engineering at Adobe—bringing rare production-grade engineering rigor to biomedical ML. Author of the best-selling textbook "Deep Learning for Everyone," he also publishes the companion open-source code and Colab-ready notebooks, emphasizing practical, reproducible education. Notably, his research program blends protein-structure prediction and metabolite-based diagnostics, reflecting a track record of translating computational innovation into clinically relevant hypotheses.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Inha University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University
English, Japanese, Korean