John S. O'Meara

Hello! I'm an undergraduate student at UW's Allen School of Computer Science in Seattle, WA.

Through my work, I hope to answer two questions:

• How can machine learning help us understand how genetic variation shapes human biology?

• How do we ensure that AI benefits humanity?

I think these are two of the most pressing questions of the century, and I hope to spend a good part of my life working on them.

Right now, I'm particularly interested in applying AI to genomics. One long-term goal of mine is to generate high-quality embedding representations for every possible SNP in the human genome.

Previously, I was a researcher at the Makeability Lab, where I led the RampNet project under the guidance of Prof. Jon Froehlich.

Feel free to email me about anything at hi@johnomeara.com. If you're unsure whether to reach out, please err on the side of doing so!