Juan Irizarry-Cole

Juan graduated from Sarah Lawrence College before pursuing his Master’s in Biomedical Science at Rutgers University. After this, he earned his PhD at New York University’s Vilcek Institute where he studied Computational Biomedicine, specializing in natural language processing and machine learning of biological sequences. His current interest is in genetic engineering using large language models. In his spare time, Juan independently develops video games, learns to play instruments, and composes music.