Reading List
Books and papers that have shaped my thinking.
Philosophy & Non-Fiction
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky
Daniel Kahneman
Cal Newport
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Baruch Spinoza
Hannah Arendt
Viktor Frankl
Scientific Textbooks
The Elements of Statistical Learning
Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
Probabilistic Graphical Models
Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman
Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology
Holmes, Huber
Statistics for High-Dimensional Data
Bühlmann, van de Geer
An Introduction to Systems Biology
Uri Alon
Alberts et al.
Key Papers & AI Foundations
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Yao et al. (2022)
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Schick et al. (2023)
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Park et al. (2023)
Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks
Kipf & Welling (2017)
Velickovic et al. (2017)
Inductive Representation Learning on Large Graphs (GraphSAGE)
Hamilton et al. (2017)
Vaswani et al. (2017)
Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes (VAE)
Kingma, Welling (2013)
Haghverdi et al. (2016)
scGen: predicts single-cell perturbation responses
Lotfollahi et al. (2019)
A common coordinate framework for spatial transcriptomics
Ghazanfar et al. (2020)
La Manno, Theis et al. (2018)
Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states (scVelo)
Bergen, Theis et al. (2020)