Computational biology, AI, oncology, writing

Building serious systems for biology, medicine, and the people who have to use them.

Hanson Wen is a Molecular and Cell Biology + Computer Science student at UC Berkeley working across computational biology, AI systems, oncology, and writing.

The work is intentionally split across research, product judgment, and public thinking: multimodal models for biology, stronger evaluation for agent systems, and essays that make the underlying ambition legible.

  • Incoming Computational Biology Intern at Regeneron
  • Student Researcher at UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab
  • Student Researcher at Berkeley RDI
  • Writer behind The Quixotic Method

Three active threads

One site, not one giant homepage.

The landing page stays focused. Deeper detail lives where it belongs: dedicated pages for projects, writing, background, and a resume-backed view of the work.

Oncology

Multimodal patient models

Founder-minded work on systems that combine histopathology, transcriptomics, EHR context, and model infrastructure into something clinically legible.

Agents

Scientific tooling that can actually reason

Research spanning agent benchmarks, swarms for biology, and the interfaces needed to turn capability into reliable action.

Writing

Public thinking as part of the product

The writing is not decorative. It is where ambition, philosophy, technical taste, and long-horizon judgment get made explicit.

Selected projects

Projects with enough edge to be worth their own pages.

Pathology AI

Enso Atlas

2026

A fully local pathology AI system for treatment-response prediction, evidence retrieval, and reporting on whole-slide images.

Top 10 in Google MedGemma Impact Challenge

Clinical trials

TrialScope AI

2025

An agentic workflow for extracting decision-useful insight from clinical trial protocols and trial documents.

CalHacks 12.0 Regeneron Track Winner

Personal bioinformatics

Personal Genome Analysis

2025

Processed 131GB of whole-genome sequencing data, identified 4.99 million variants, and built a full pipeline for ancestry and pharmacogenomics analysis.

Full-stack genome pipeline

Agent evaluation

AgentHLE

2026

Humanity's Last Exam for computer-use agents, spanning 63 high-GDP domains and a much tougher standard for useful agent performance.

Benchmark design at Berkeley RDI

Writing

Writing is first-class, not a sidecar.

The site treats writing as core infrastructure. It is how technical judgment, taste, and ambition become inspectable.

The Quixotic Method

Between the windmill and the brick.

Essays on AI, ambition, philosophy, computational biology, and the discipline of choosing problems that can matter for a long time.

Resume-backed snapshot

For people who want compact signal.

Current experience, education, projects, and awards rendered directly from the resume source.

  • Regeneron Pharmaceuticals — Incoming Computational Biology Intern
  • UC Berkeley Sky Computing Lab — Student Researcher
  • Berkeley RDI — Student Researcher
  • Stealth Biotech — Co-founder