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SmartRD: Leveraging GPT4.0 Prompting Strategies for Reasoning and Decision

Ning Luo, Alex Zheng, Dr. Sagar Samtani. Published in 2023 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science. Presented at 2023 Wharton Business and Generative AI Workshop Poster Session.

  • Used ML and GPT4.0 API to improve management and assessment of common blockchain smart contract source code vulnerabilities.

Predicting Perturbation Effects With Genomic Foundation Model Embeddings

Alex Zheng, Daniel Thompson, Litian Liang.

  • Studies whether modern genomic foundation model embeddings (from Enformer and the Nucleotide Transformer) can help a standard ML pipeline predict how a cell's genes change expression when a single transcription factor is activated using CRISPRa.
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Dissecting Bias of ChatGPT in College Major Recommendations

Alex Zheng. Published in Information Technology and Management Journal (Springer). Regeneron Science Talent Search Top 300 Scholar.

  • Used Python and Google's Word2Vec model with novel benchmarks to uncover AI biases in college major recommendations by student demographic and educational profile.
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