William Howard-Snyder

Research Intern

HistoryDag: Designing efficient methods for phylogenetic inference.

Research Assistant

OnClass: Helped implement the algorithm and accompanying (open source) software package that uses the Cell Ontology to classify single-cell RNA sequences that are seen or unseen at training time. My contributions include implementing a PyTorch model of the neural network in OnClass, and improving the memory efficiency of the full algorithm from ~25 GB to under 8 GB.

Senior Thesis: I continued to work with Professor Sheng Wang on my senior thesis, which used contrastive learning to improve single-cell classification for neural models.

Teaching Assistant

Led a weekly review section of 25 students for the course CSE 312: Probability and Statistics. I also had other TA responsibilities such as grading, holding office hours, and designing high quality slides/worksheets. In my last quarter TAing (out of 3), I was the head section TA, and designed the lesson plan for the sections that TAs held. This involved curating questions and review materials weekly, as well as presenting the section plan to the rest of the teaching staff.

Philosophy Writing Tutor

Reviewed the papers and assignments of undergraduate students enrolled in philosophy classes by critiquing the structure of their arguments and writing.

University of Washington

University of Washington

GPA: 3.9

University of Washington

GPA: 3.9