Peter Koo

• 2025-present, Associate Professor, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  
• 2019-2024, Assistant Professor, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  
  • Affiliations:
    
    • 2020-present, CSHL Cancer Center Member
      
    • 2023-present, Graduate Program in Genetics at Stony Brook University
      
    • 2020-present, Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Stony Brook University
      
    • 2019-present, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University
      
• 2015-2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University
  
• 2010-2015, Ph.D. in Physics, Yale University
  
• 2009-2010, Master in Financial Engineering, Hass School of Business at UC Berkeley
  
• 2006-2008, M.S. in Physics, Yale University
  
• 2006, B.A. in Physics, University of California at Berkeley
  
  

koo@cshl.edu
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@pkoo562
PeterKoo
@p-koo

Research Interests

I am interested in exploring how robust representations of biological sequences learned by deep neural networks can provide novel insights into biological processes.