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John S. O'Meara
John S. O'Meara
Undergraduate Researcher
Allen School of Computer Science
University of Washington
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OpenMPRA database interface with its MPRA sequence illustration and study browser

OpenMPRA

A database of MPRA studies, experiment metadata, and processed data.

  • Genomics
  • AI
About the project →Website ↗Code ↗
Street View imagery showing RampNet curb ramp annotations

RampNet

Scaling curb ramp detection with open government data and street-level imagery.

  • Computer vision
  • Accessibility
  • AI
About the project →Website ↗Code ↗Read the paper ↗Dataset ↗

Blog Posts

A vector illustration of space and the cosmos.

Where is the AI?

If intelligent alien civilizations and recursively self-improving AI exist, why hasn't superintelligent AI conquered the universe?

  • Essay
  • AI
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Scaling Sequence-to-Omics Models

Scaling Sequence-to-Omics Models

Exploratory experiments on dataset breadth, parameter count, track diversity, and transformer depth in sequence-to-omics models.

  • Genomics
  • AI
Read post →Code ↗Runs data ↗

Publications

First page of the BikeButler paper

CHI · 2026

BikeButler: A Personalized, Context-sensitive Bike Routing Tool using Open Data and VLM-based Analyses of Street View Imagery

Jared Hwang, John O’Meara, Zeyu Wang, Jasmine Zhang, and Jon E. Froehlich

  • AI
  • HCI
  • Urban computing
Publication ↗PDF ↗Website ↗Code ↗
First page of the RampNet paper

ICCV CV4A11y Workshop · 2025

RampNet: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Bootstrapping Curb Ramp Detection in Streetscape Images from Open Government Metadata

John O’Meara, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, Mikey Saugstad, and Jon E. Froehlich

  • AI
  • Computer vision
  • Accessibility
Publication ↗PDF ↗Code ↗Dataset ↗Project: RampNet →