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Tai Wong

CS + BioE @ UIUC

Tai Wong

Building at the intersection of AI and biology.

About

I'm a Computer Science and Bioengineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research spans deep learning for biomedical imaging at OHSU and computational genomics at UCSF. Outside of research, I'm interested in reinforcement learning and getting computers to play games.

Research

2025 — Present

Research Assistant · Dream Lab, UIUC

Building a multi-agent AI system using LangGraph to identify biomedical research opportunities by analyzing data from PubMed, NIH Reporter, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Architecting a Neo4j knowledge graph with MeSH-based semantic structure for research trend analysis and gap detection. Also researching code-first approaches to improve LLM trustworthiness, where agents design statistical analyses in sandboxed environments to ground claims in verifiable outputs.

PythonLangGraphNeo4jLLMsMulti-Agent Systems
2022 — Present

Research Assistant · Mattis Lab, UCSF

Developing an NLP pipeline using PubMedBERT and local LLMs to extract structured cell differentiation protocols from ~300,000 PubMed papers, building a unified database linking source cells, growth factors, and experimental conditions for stem cell research. Also designed bioinformatics pipelines predicting miRNA-mRNA interactions related to NAFLD, contributing to a published paper on regulatory networks in metabolic disease.

PythonPubMedBERTNLPBioinformaticsPostgreSQL
2023 — 2025

Deep Learning Research Intern · COOL Lab, OHSU

Developed CNN and U-Net models to analyze OCTA scans for dilated vessel detection as a biomarker of diabetic retinopathy. Improved segmentation through hyperparameter tuning and data augmentation, evaluating with AUC, IoU, and sensitivity metrics.

PythonPyTorchCNNU-NetComputer VisionMATLAB

Projects

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