SHI Collaboration Profiles

Profile pages for Sustainable Horizons Institute SRP 2025-2026 Student of Faculty


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Judy Wang

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Florida State University

Computer Science

Biography

Judy Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University. She earned her B.S. in Quantitative Biology from the University of Southern California in 2023 and an M.A. in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University in 2025. Currently, she is pursuing doctoral research in computer science, with a focus on applying machine learning techniques to the analysis of DNA and RNA sequences for the detection of cancer-related abnormalities. Judy brings a distinctive interdisciplinary perspective to her work, drawing on her background in bioinformatics, computer science, and communication to advance the study of complex biological data.

Academic Information

Status: PhD Student

Year in Program: 1st

Major/Specialty: Computer Science/ Computational Biology

Degrees: PhD/ Computer Science/ 1st Year

Research Areas

Biology; Computer Science; Machine Learning/AI

Research Interests

Computational biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics

Topical Areas

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Computer Science; Ecology; Other Biological Sciences

Relevant Coursework

At FSU: COP 4530 - Data Structures II, CAP 5540 - Bioinformatics: Sequence Analysis At USC: CSCI 104 - Data Structures and Object-Oriented Design, CSCI 103 - Introduction to Programming, CSCI 170 - Discrete Methods in Computer Science, BISC 220 - General Biology: Cell Biology and Physiology, BISC 312 - Molecular Biochemistry

Publications & Research Projects

iScience - Cell Press: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36945578/

Faculty Mentor

Hongmei Chi