Justin Dillard-Telm
Mary Gates Research Scholar
Autumn 2020
Major: Bioengineering
Mentor: Matt Kaeberlein, Pathology
Project
YoloV3 and the Biology of Aging
For this project I trained a neural network to recognize yeast cells in different stages of their life cycle for the purposes of screening for lifespan extensions in different yeast strains.
What I learned
Through this research project I learned a lot about both the power and the limitations of machine learning, along with different ways to balance datasets and toggle input parameters to machine learning algorithms to achieve statistically accurate results.
Advice for future applicants
My advice for future scholars is this: you should present more than just ideas in your application. You should have data and other deliverables that can be discussed.
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