Bioinformatics undergrad at UC San Diego (CS minor, class of 2028).

What I'm working on:

• PEPMatch: I added indel-aware search to the IEDB's peptide-matching tool, in its Rust core. Six PRs merged upstream:
  • #24: 1-indel search via bidirectional DFS in Rust
  • #27: annotate indel hits with edit type and query position
  • #29: honor explicit k, clamp above the pigeonhole optimum
  • #31: 2-indel search + short-query k-partition
  • #35: read metadata only for the proteins a search hits
  • #36: indel DFS walks each side of a seed once, not once per budget split
• LabReach: a RAG system that does the hour of research a student would do before cold-emailing a research lab, across 445 labs around UCSD.
• Kairo: a personal AI agent (my son) that runs itself on my own server, with a file-based memory it maintains across sessions and a bus that fans work out to a fleet of sub-agents.

More at roman-young.dev.