Blog Posts

• What is this blog?

  22 October 2021

  Hi, I’m Zorian! I also go by Zo and use he/him pronouns. As of writing this, I am just starting my third year as a PhD candidate in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. I’ll spare the details for a later blog post, but quickly, my research interests involve the intersections of deep learning, computational biology, molecular evolution and immunology. So, what’s this blog all about? Welp, to be honest I’ve wanted to have some platform to share my thoughts and experiences about things I’m interested in for a while now. I had a short stint of vlogging during my senior year at Virginia Tech, but quickly found myself uncomfortable recording myself in public. After a nice break from this hobby, I’ve decided to reboot in a more “Zo-friendly” alternative: blogging. A quick disclaimer – I don’t intend for these posts to be “formal” in a sense of being beautifully written. Rather, I want these blog posts to read in way similar to how I speak (minus the slang of course). I want this to be fun, and I will indefinitely write under the assumption that nobody will read this blog and it will serve as a personal journal of sorts. I had no idea what to write about first, so I figured I’d start with a quick self-introduction and overview :)