Jesse M. Zhang

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Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Research Interests: Machine Learning + Genomics
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About Me

As of June 3, 2019, I am building a startup with two friends, and we're based out of SF. Stay tuned. :)

I recently finished my PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University. While at Stanford, I was a member of David Tse's group, and my research revolved around analysis of single-cell RNA-Seq datasets and understanding deep learning models. During the winter 2016 and spring 2018 quarters, I helped design and teach a new Stanford course on data science for high-throughput sequencing. I have also had the privilege of working for some wonderful organizations during my graduate and undergraduate careers including Grail, Cellular Research, MC10, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Dana-Farber.

[Dissertation][Defense]

Publications

A Fourier-based Approach to Generalization and Optimization in Deep Learning
Farzan Farnia, Jesse M. Zhang, David N. Tse
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2020

Generalizable Adversarial Training via Spectral Normalization
Farzan Farnia*, Jesse M. Zhang*, David N. Tse
*equal contributors
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019
[Code][Poster]

Valid post-clustering differential analysis for single-cell RNA-Seq
Jesse M. Zhang, Govinda M. Kamath, David N. Tse
Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 2019
[Code][Slides][Talk]

Porcupine Neural Networks: (Almost) All Local Optima are Global
Soheil Feizi, Hamid Javadi, Jesse Zhang, David Tse
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018
[Code][Poster]

An Interpretable Framework for Clustering Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets
Jesse M. Zhang, Jue Fan, H. Christina Fan, David Rosenfeld, and David N. Tse
BMC Bioinformatics, 2018
[Code][Poster]

Fast and accurate single-cell RNA-seq analysis by clustering of transcript-compatibility counts
Vasilis Ntranos*, Govinda M. Kamath*, Jesse M. Zhang*, Lior Pachter and David N. Tse
*equal contributors
Genome Biology, 2016
[Code][Poster]

Lysine-specific demethylase 1 has dual functions as a major regulator of androgen receptor transcriptional activity
Changmeng Cai, Housheng Hansen He, Shuai Gao, Sen Chen, Ziyang Yu, Yanfei Gao, Shaoyong Chen, Mei Wei Chen, Jesse Zhang, Musaddeque Ahmed, Yang Wang, Eric Metzger, Roland Schüle, X. Shirley Liu, Myles Brown, and Steven P. Balk
Cell Reports, 2014

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