Leon's papers

• Popformer: Learning general signatures of positive selection with a self-supervised transformer

  with Sorelle Friedler and Sara Mathieson

  (2026; Research Assistant @ UPenn) [Preprint] [DOI]

• Interpreting convolutional neural networks in population genetics

  with Huiting Xu, Dylan Ray, Lei Lei, Daniel Schrider, Franz Baumdicker, and Sara Mathieson

  (2025; Research Assistant @ UPenn) [Preprint]

• Large-Scale Data Collection in Fieldwork Contexts: A Case Study of Clause Embedding in Zulu

  with Mark Kimani, Jane Loney, Audrey Stenger, Aaron Steven White, Asia Pietraszko

  (2025; Research Assistant @ UPenn & University of Rochester) [Preprint]

• Language Model Frame Filling for Low Resource Languages

  (2023; Class Project: Natural Language Processing) [PDF]

• Genes Affecting Circadian Period in Drosophila melanogaster are Correlated with Latitude

  with Emma Jia, Kunal Deb, Rohit Marol, Timothy Lai

  (2023; Class Project: Applied Genomics) [PDF]

• Beyond the Picket Line: A Data-Driven Exploration of Strike Predictors and Socio-Economic Factors

  with Tarun Paravasthu, Madeleine Johnson, and Anuraag Kumar

  (2023; Class Project: Data Mining) [PDF]