Hey! I'm Jared

I'm a Senior Engineer on NVIDIA's BioNeMo team. Previously, I co-founded a company (YC S23) and was an Applied Scientist at AWS.

My work/research is focused on machine learning and data visualization. After going through open-heart surgery in my mid-twenties, I pivoted that work towards biology.

I live with my fiancé and pug in San Diego, California 🌴. Outside of work I like to surf, skateboard, and practice yoga (still can't sit cross-legged, though).

Find me in the matrix:

selected publications

Interpreting Bio-Foundation Models with Sparse Autoencoders

Jared Wilber and Tyler Shimko

VISxAI @ IEEE VIS 2026

Article Feature Atlas
AttentionRadViz: Token-Anchored Attention Profile Visualization for Transformer Head Analysis

Jared Wilber

IEEE VIS 2026 (Short Papers)

Paper Code
Scaling Laws and Architectural Frontiers in Metagenomic Foundation Models

Geraldene Munsamy, Gavin Ayres, Jérémie Dona, Carla Greco, …, Jared Wilber, and 20 more authors

ICML 2026

Poster OpenReview Code
Accelerating End-to-End Co-Folding Performance with NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit

Kyle Tretina, Roy Tal, Zoey Zhang, Emine Kucukbenli, Jared Wilber, and Mohammed AlQuraishi

NVIDIA Technical Blog, 2026

Blog Code
Designing AI-Programmable Therapeutics with the EDEN Family of Foundation Models

Geraldene Munsamy, Gavin Ayres, Carla Greco, Keith Kam, …, Jared Wilber, and many more authors

bioRxiv, 2026

Preprint
The Illustrated Evo 2

Jared Wilber, Farhad Ramezanghorbani, David Romero Guzman, Tyler Shimko, and John St. John

VISxAI @ IEEE VIS 2025

Article
BioNeMo Framework: A Modular, High-Performance Library for AI Model Development in Drug Discovery

Peter St. John, Dejun Lin, Polina Binder, Malcolm Greaves, …, Jared Wilber, and many more authors

arXiv, 2024

arXiv Code
Genome Modeling and Design Across All Domains of Life with Evo 2

Garyk Brixi, Matthew G. Durrant, Jerome Ku, Michael Poli, and many more authors

Nature, 2026

Paper Preprint Code

open-source

roughViz.js★ 7.2K

Reusable JavaScript library for creating sketchy, hand-drawn styled charts in the browser.

Website Code
BioNeMo Recipes★ 871

Recipes for building and adapting AI models in drug discovery at scale.

Code
MLU Explain★ 944

Visual, interactive explanations of core machine learning concepts.

Website Code
BioNeMo Agent Toolkit★ 484

Turn any coding agent into a life science expert with NVIDIA BioNeMo skills.

Code
pykoi★ 410

Active learning for LLMs in one unified interface: collect feedback, compare models, and fine-tune.

Code
tri-cli

A tree CLI utility, but interactive and with treemaps.

Code
svelte2jupyter

Render Svelte components directly inside Jupyter notebooks.

Website Code
duckdive

Query Surfline data from your CLI, and optionally store it with pandas or DuckDB.

Code

teaching / edtech

Data Visualization @ UC San Diego

DSC 106, an undergraduate course on designing and building data visualizations for the web.

Course Site
MLPrep

Interactive preparation for machine learning concept, coding, and system design interviews.

Website
Class Buzz

A classroom engagement tool that makes participation more active and social.

Website

interactive articles

The Permutation Test

A scrollytelling visual tutorial on statistical testing with hand-drawn aesthetics.

Article
The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly

An exploration of the music of skateboarding. A visual essay for The Pudding.

Article
Neural Networks

Learn about neural networks, the backbone of many popular algorithms today.

Article
Linear Regression

Interactively learn how linear regression models work in machine learning.

Article
Logistic Regression

How logistic regression is used for binary classification, through an interactive example.

Article
Train, Test, and Validation Sets

Why you split data into training, testing, and validation sets, with a live model.

Article
ROC & AUC

A visual, interactive explanation of ROC curves and area under the curve.

Article
Precision & Recall

Two alternatives to accuracy for classification, plus the F1-score and confusion matrices.

Article
The Bias Variance Tradeoff

The tradeoff between under- and over-fitting, with interactive LOESS and KNN examples.

Article
Decision Trees

How a decision tree makes its splits, entropy and information gain, and why going too deep hurts.

Article
Random Forest

How majority votes and well-placed randomness extend decision trees into random forests.

Article
Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning and the exploration-exploitation dilemma, interactively.

Article
Equality of Odds

A metric used to quantify unfairness and remove bias from machine learning models.

Article
Colors: National Geographic Covers

The color palettes of National Geographic covers, 1965 to 2018.

Article
U.C. Berkeley: Faculty Salaries

Interactively explore the salaries of U.C. Berkeley faculty.

Article
4PLYMAG: All The Gall

An analysis of Fred Gall's prolific skateboarding career.

Article
4PLYMAG: Eric Koston

A look at the professional skateboarding career of Eric Koston.

Article
Jenkem Mag: Every Jim Greco Clip

A statistical analysis of every Jim Greco clip, for Jenkem skateboard magazine.

Article
Nested Machine Learning Workflows

An introduction to nested machine learning workflows in R with tidyr and purrr.

Article
Double Descent: A Visual Introduction

An introduction to double descent in modern machine learning and how it relates to the bias-variance tradeoff.

Article
Double Descent: A Mathematical Explanation

A mathematical explanation of double descent, building on the cubic spline example from the first article.

Article
4PLY Magazine

An online, data-driven skateboard magazine. Followed by Tony Hawk!

Website
Sperm Hero

A game where you control a sperm cell with your head and dodge various forms of birth control.

Play

open datasets

Bob Ross Paintings

Every painting featured in The Joy of Painting, with subjects, colors, and episode metadata.

Dataset
Skate Video Music

Music credits from nearly three decades of skate videos, 1989 to 2018.

Dataset
National Geographic Magazine Covers

Every National Geographic cover from 1960 to 2018, with a script to scrape recent years.

Dataset
U.S.D.A. Pomological Watercolors

Watercolors documenting fruit and nut varieties developed around the turn of the 20th century.

Dataset

Hey! I'm Jared

selected publications

open-source

roughViz.js★ 7.2K

BioNeMo Recipes★ 871

MLU Explain★ 944

BioNeMo Agent Toolkit★ 484

pykoi★ 410

teaching / edtech

interactive articles

open datasets