saberhq.com
Friendly notes on what I’m building, reading, and figuring out.
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see full list →A solo entry to the Virtual Cell Challenge 2026 that runs like a small research group: one human, a handful of AI agents, and a ladder of models climbed one scored rung at a time.
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Explore why autoencoders shine; this post pairs plain-language basics with demos, figures, and a walkthrough video.
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ntEmbd turns nucleotide sequences into vector embeddings; explore training setup, benchmarks, and GitHub repo links.
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About & recent news
Hi! My name is Saber. I am a research scientist in the AI × Bio space and genuinely appreciate the fact that I’ve been fortunate to spend a big portion of my life dedicated to health science research. I created this place to share my work initially, but these days it’s gradually turning into a place where I can express myself from different perspectives. You will find my music taste, photography adventures, and occasionally long write-ups about things that matter the most to me. Stay around, say hi, and let’s connect about academic research, music, snowboarding, and beyond! ;)
More about me- Oct 2026 Started Saber Vibes, a short playlist of the songs that sum up my life right now, and added an About page.
- Aug 2026 Building Sidechain, my solo entry to Arc Institute’s Virtual Cell Challenge 2026. The writeup: What Sidechain is (opens in a new tab).
- Aug 2026 Redesigned the site’s typeface and color scheme (v1.0.0 (opens in a new tab)).
- Jul 2026 Wrapped up a year at Genentech (gRED), having co-led the analysis of two genome-wide Perturb-seq screens.
- Nov 2025 Attended the scverse Conference 2025 (opens in a new tab).
- Sep 2025 Launched this website. Built with Hugo (opens in a new tab).
- Jul 2025 Joined Genentech (gRED) as a Computational Scientist, working on genome-wide Perturb-seq screens.
- Jun 2025 Attended ICML 2025 (opens in a new tab) in Vancouver.
- Dec 2024 Attended NeurIPS 2024 (opens in a new tab) in Vancouver.
- Jul 2024 Defended my PhD dissertation (opens in a new tab) and graduated from UBC.
- Jun 2024 The LRGASP research is published in Nature Methods (opens in a new tab).
- May 2024 ntEmbd is available on bioRxiv (opens in a new tab).
- Jun 2023 Presented ntEmbd at the ISMB/ECCB (opens in a new tab) conference in Lyon, France.
- May 2023 RNA‑Bloom2 is published in Nature Communications (opens in a new tab).
- Mar 2023 Meta‑NanoSim is published in GigaScience (opens in a new tab).