Hi, I'm Ryan.

I am currently a software engineer at Fawkes Biodata, where I am building backends and applications for connecting patients with biotech clinical trials.

Previously, I was a research assistant at Dr. Lee Cooper's Computational and Integrative Pathology Group at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, where I worked on finetuning foundation models for segmentation tasks on pathology images.

Blog Posts

• The Butterfly Effect: How Random Initialization Shapes WTE Semantic Similarity An experiment exploring how random weight initialization leads identical language models to develop divergent word token embeddings under identical training conditions.
• Profiting Off Zyn with BFS + Parameter-free Webscrape I developed a BFS algorithm to track the rapid growth of Zyn in the U.S., leading to a highly profitable investment in parent company Swedish Match.

Links

• Github
• LinkedIn