Tom Han Chongye

Research Assistant at Salk Institute

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Recent Bowdoin graduate in Biology and Computer Science. I'm a research assistant at the Pereira Lab in Salk Institute working on projects that leverages deep learning powered tools to analyze pathogenesis of ALS in mouse model with Dr. Talmo Pereira and Dr. Eiman Azim. When I'm not in lab, you'll find me exploring scenic bike routes around La Jolla or tinkering with my Flipper Zero.

Projects

HealthViz

2025 - present

A health data visualization app developed for iOS widgets written completely in Swift/SwiftUI. Privacy sensitive and uses HealthKit to fetch health data.

Swift SwiftUI iOS Development

Honor Thesis

2022 - 2025

My undergraduate honors thesis, applies deep learning analysis methods to study ethology in crickets (G. bimaculatus) for neuroscience research.

Python R PyTorch Computational Biology Ethology Deep Learning Bioinformatics

Marker

2025

A small utility tool for fast precision behavioral annotation of single animal behavioral project. Written in Python but optimized for speed and performance for efficient annotation without sacrificing usability.

Python OpenCV Bioinformatics Ethology

Project Site

Now Playing API

2025

A serverless API that fetches my currently playing song from Spotify and Apple Music, deployed with Cloudflare Workers.

TypeScript Web Development Cloud Services Cloudflare Workers Music

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Writings

I added an `AGENTS.md` file to all my repos

25 Sep 2025

I fully embraced vibe coding now. After being hyperjudgmental about “AI slop” for the past few months, and secretly being pretentious about being “a real...

Tools Vibe coding

Things that I wish I known about earlier

25 Jul 2025

Sites nn.svg NN-SVG An automatic +10 pts if I see you including a diagram like this in when grading student reports. Elegant, straightforward, and easy...

Tools

My first RAG ChatBot

Updated 03 Aug 2025

As I got my first job (aye), I fell into the same rabbit hole as I did for any other bioinformatics related experience I had:...

LangChain LangSmith Google Cloud Compute Ollama Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Things I've done for this site, and how I did them

Updated 08 Jul 2025

This is sort of like a changelog for this site, but also just wanted to document how I did some of the things. Now Playing...

Web Development HTML CSS JavaScript Jekyll Bootstrap