Officially Dr. Tang! 🎓 Five years at Yale, and deeply grateful to my advisor
@MarkGerstein for everything.
25 first author papers, published across Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology, ICLR, ACL, ICML, NeurIPS. Best Paper x2. 15k citations.
Looking back at the journey:
📝 Started with NLP: LLM factual consistency and grounding
🧬 In parallel, drawn to AI scientists: BioCoder, MolLM, drug design, LatentChem, CellForge, BC-Design, Safety of AI Scientists, Nature Biotech, ...
🤖 And ultimately landed on self-improving agents: MedAgents, ChemAgent, OpenHands, MedAgentsBench, LocAgent, Eigen-Agent, EvoClaw, ...
Thank you to every collaborator who made this real. And thank you Mark, for giving me every resource, backing my mission, and always pushing me to think bigger.
The throughline was always the same: AI that can actually do real work, improve itself, and accelerate science. That mission continues.
Onward. 🙏