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jaaxk/README.md

Jack Vaska

About Me

  • I'm a masters student in Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University
  • Interested in large language models and their application in bioinformatics
    • My capstone project is using DNABERT-S to build better metagenomics tools and learn more about the human microbiome
  • I'm currently looking for an internship in bioinformatics or machine learning engineering for summer 2025

My repositories

  • Here I have various individual and university projects that I've worked on throughout the years
  • DNABERT-S Weighted Sum Pooling Implementation is a project that implements a learned global attention network to generate weights for each token-level embedding before pooling together to understand which parts of the sequence are more meaningful for species discrimination.
  • COMEBERT is a combination of the metagenomics binning program, COMEBin, and the pretrained DNA language models, DNABERT (1, 2, and S). My modification replaces tetra-nucleotide frequency embeddings with different DNABERT embeddings, and comebines them with sequencing depth information to bin sequences in an unsupervised manner.
  • EmerGNN model was a graduate project that allowed me to learn more about graph neural networks and web development
  • Lineup reader website was an individual project to self-learn web development using Flask
  • My Neural Network Implementation was an individual project to learn about OOP, and various deep learning optimizers, loss functions, and preprocessing techniques
  • Lysis-lysogeny gene model was an undergraduate project to model gene expression of bacteriophages and helped me learn about statistical methods like Monte-Carlo simulations

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  1. jaaxk jaaxk Public

    Config files for my GitHub profile.

  2. My-Workout-Tracker-App My-Workout-Tracker-App Public

    Python

  3. DoublyLinkedList-in-CPP DoublyLinkedList-in-CPP Public

    My implementation of a doubly linked list as a project to learn c++!

    C++

  4. Lineup-Reader Lineup-Reader Public

    This notebook takes in an image of a festival lineup and returns a dataframe with the artists, their genres, and top songs.

    Jupyter Notebook

  5. Lineup-Reader-Website Lineup-Reader-Website Public

    This is a web app I built using Flask to incorporate the backend that I created to a simple UI. This web app takes an image of a music festival (or other) lineup and displays a table of all the art…

    Python

  6. jaaxk.github.io jaaxk.github.io Public

    HTML