Hello there.

I’m Kevin Wu, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego studying biology with Steve Briggs. My research interests span the boundary between computer science and biology. I spend my spare time taking pictures or programming side projects Sometimes I like to pretend that I know about food. Once upon a time, I really enjoyed lining up colors on the Rubik’s cubing, and my fastest single solve in competition was 15.60s

Projects

Plasmyd

A forum intended to enrich online discussion of scientific publications. Claim papers you’ve authored, save ones that you intend to read, and discuss excellent or problematic literature openly and anonymously.

ptsfor.me

An arbitrary point tracking software. Points are awarded by at mentioning the ptsfor twitter account and can be given to any twitter account. Point totals are tracked and displayed on the website. Learn more by checking out the help page on the ptsfor site.

Genelist Storage and Computation Engine (Code)

My Google Summer of Code 2012 project in collaboration with Chunlei Wu and Andrew Su at the Scripps Research Institute. A system which RESTfully stores genelists and computes enrichment between lists efficiently. Eventually to be integrated into BioGPS.

@RageCurator (Code)

A twitter account that features rage comics from reddit.com which are curated by me. The custom mini-CMS scrapes the front page of the subreddit every hour and allows curation of comics using the webapp. Selected comics are queued and tweeted 8 times every weekdays during peak hours.