Andy Gonzalez: The Organization of Life

When I first began my IDEA Grant research project, I knew I was ultimately undertaking a project that sits at the intersection between biology, computer science, and mathematics. My project, which focuses on creating a new computational tool for analyzing spatial transcriptomics data, is not just solely about writing code or producing pretty figures. AtContinue reading “Andy Gonzalez: The Organization of Life”

Jas Chawla: Professional Labelers

This month has been an eventful one for us. We already have a basic model that can detect damaged windows reasonably well; however, this alone isn’t sufficient to achieve our broader goal of drone-based damage assessment. To move closer to that goal, we decided to revisit the dataset used to train the original model andContinue reading “Jas Chawla: Professional Labelers”

Peter Fasano: Hurdles to Xenharmonic Computation

Greetings Esteemed Reader, This past month, completing a big band arrangement of ‘Smart Race’ and finishing the theme of ‘Celebration’, the last movement of my big band suite, revealed some persistent problems I’ll be facing in my tuning methodology. The Lumatone is anticipated to give me insight on said methods, however, it is stuck inContinue reading “Peter Fasano: Hurdles to Xenharmonic Computation”

Andy Gonzalez: Debugging, Difficulties, and Perseverance

Hey all! It’s been a hectic past few weeks, but progress has been coming along slowly and steadily. As I continue to build DSPT, a computational tool for more accurate cell trajectories, I didn’t realize just how quickly it would become a true test of my abilities as a programmer. Soon I discovered that “justContinue reading “Andy Gonzalez: Debugging, Difficulties, and Perseverance”

Andy Gonzalez: Exploring Cellular Landscapes with Computer Science

My name is Andy Gonzalez and I am a junior studying Computer Science at Florida State University. This summer, through the IDEA Grant, I am pursuing an interesting computational biology project studying the emerging area of spatial transcriptomics (ST). Imagine being able to map the activity of genes directly to the organs and tissues theyContinue reading “Andy Gonzalez: Exploring Cellular Landscapes with Computer Science”

Getting Ready for the President’s Showcase with Tina Tian

As summer is coming to an end, I am excited to begin preparing for my poster presentation at the President’s Showcase in October. This will not be my first time presenting a poster on my project; last spring, I had the opportunity to talk about my work at the CS Expo hosted by the DepartmentContinue reading “Getting Ready for the President’s Showcase with Tina Tian”

Navigating Challenges in My Research

The goal of my summer research seems fairly straightforward – build an application that takes in the DNA sequencing data of cancer cells and infer their evolutionary history. However, as I began to delve deeper into my project, I have encountered several challenges. This is my first time undertaking a computational project at this scale.Continue reading “Navigating Challenges in My Research”