Tim Jing

Hi, and welcome to my portfolio! My name is Tim Jing, and I'm a current senior studying Biomedical Computation at Stanford University. My interests lie at the intersection of AI, emerging technologies, policy, and global health.

A Fascination with Technology

Growing up, I've had the incredible privilege of witnessing how technology has rapidly transformed our lives. From the Internet to the smartphone, the past twenty years have brought more radical changes to how we think about our world than perhaps any comparable time period in history.

This fascination with technology carried into Stanford. As a new freshman on campus, I found myself gravitating toward exploring technical research. I've focused my work on using computational models to simulate and understand biological systems, be it individual protein-protein interactions or entire cells.

From Theory to Impact

At the same time, I nurtured a fledgling interest in understanding how research is communicated and applied downstream of theory. Many of the papers I was reading would describe these fascinating new algorithms or techniques for, say, better understanding an individual drug's activity on a protein target, but there was little emphasis on how the techniques could be practically applied to help support health outcomes.

This sparked my interest in science communication. Having just come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, I started writing about the apparent disconnect between scientists and the general public, and where our messaging went wrong. Bridging this gap was of paramount importance to me.

Communication as Translation

From then, science communication has taken an increasingly large portion of my focus. I've come to realize that research or science is essentially incomplete without considering communication—it is not merely a downstream consideration that occurs after the technical research is completed.

Communication is how we translate technology into impact.

Science & Health Policy

Correspondingly, I found myself becoming more interested in science and health policy. If technological innovations provide the raw resources to bolster health outcomes, policy is the force multiplier that makes the resources more effective. With the tumultuous nature of our politics right now in the United States, it is increasingly important that researchers and policymakers are not divorced from one another in conversation. Both need to be in the room discussing how we can achieve the common goal of bettering health in the US and beyond.