Jonathan Zhao

I'm a student at Stanford. I research and build in comp bio & neuro.

I also debated for England & Stanford Debate and played piano & organ @ Milan's Duomo Cathedral.

Work

Incoming ML Engineer @ Pumpkinseedongoing

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) for Raman Spectroscopy Fingerprints for protein sequencing.

Mar 2026–present

Bioinformatics Research Engineer @ BabylonBioongoing

Discovering new drugs; CDA-protected.

Research

2025–present
2023–present

PFAS Pollution Research @ CIWEMongoing

Stockholm Junior Water Prize Winner

Geospatial NNs to predict PFAS levels & ETDOT-optimised point-of-use filters.

2023–2024

Writing

More to come.