Hello! I'm Owen, a computer science Ph.D. student and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford, advised by James Zou. I study how we can AI can help us solve big scientific problems.

Some of the things I'm interested in right now:

• AI Scientists: How do we build and train better AI systems to accelerate discovery? Why haven't any "AI scientists" made impactful discoveries yet?
• Evaluation: When, where, how does AI make mistakes in scientific reasoning? Can we characterize and define these gaps?
• Scientific rigor in the age of automation: How do we evaluate AI-generated research? How do we prepare our scientific institutions for a future of increased automation?

I did my undergrad at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and I previously worked with Marinka Zitnik at Harvard Medical School as a research associate.

I've had the pleasure of working on using AI to do cool science in diverse domains, from designing new polymer materials to nominating new targets for multiple sclerorsis to predicting geographic coordinates of poplar trees just from their genomes.