Undergraduate Student
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Walker Rickord is an undergraduate senior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign obtaining a dual degree in bioengineering and psychology while minoring in computer science. He is affiliated with the University of Michigan as a part of Paul Jensen's research lab. Walker is applying for Ph.D. programs in bioengineering to begin in Fall 2024. He is passionate about the applications of self-supervised, multimodal, and transformer-based learning to systems biology.