Clara Wong-Fannjiang

Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Prescient Design | Genentech

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I'm a machine learning researcher at Genentech broadly interested in facilitating trustworthy AI-guided scientific inquiry and decision-making. My current work tackles this goal through the lens of uncertainty quantification methods, and is particularly motivated by problem settings that arise drug discovery and clinical decision-making. Website: https://clarafy.github.io/

Experience

  • Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Genentech
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2023 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Machine learning methods for data-driven design. Advised by Jennifer Listgarten & Michael Jordan.

  • Research Assistant at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
    Feb 2018 - Aug 2018 · 7 mos

    Designed and conducted biologging field experiments in Monterey Bay, CA. Developed supervised learning methods to characterize novel in situ behavioral patterns. Supervised by Kakani Katija.

  • Google Brain Resident at Google
    Jun 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Developed regularization schemes for suppressing chaotic dynamics in recurrent neural networks. Contributed to deep learning approach for taxonomic identification of genetic reads. Supervised by David Sussillo and Mark DePristo.

  • Janelia Undergraduate Scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 · 3 mos

    Developed new matrix decomposition method for uncovering networks in whole-brain imaging data, or more generally in time-series data. Analyzed both simulated and real neural data. Advised by Jeremy Freeman.