
Zhengyuan (Dora) Dong
Ph.D. Student, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Advisor: Prof. Renée J. Miller.
Interests: Data Lake, Model Lake, Multi-agent System, AI for Science
News & Updates
- 2024 Sep. Released BioMANIA v2 preprint manuscript on bioRxiv
- 2024 Jul. Presented research poster at ISMB 2024 (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology)
- 2024 Jan. Commenced Ph.D. studies at the University of Waterloo
Publications & Preprints
BioMANIA: Simplifying bioinformatics data analysis through conversation
bioRxiv (2023)
Open Source Projects

BioMANIA
Status: Completed ✅ at Oct 2023, updated at Oct 2024
An AI-driven chatbot platform that simplifies bioinformatics data analysis through conversation. Features include front-end and back-end components, extensive data setup, model fine-tuning, and deployment solutions across Docker, Railway, and terminal CLI.

DocLocal
Status: Complete ✅ at Jun 2023
A GUI application that downloads and manages GitHub repository README files locally while offering integrated web search functionality through popular search engines. The tool streamlines documentation access by automatically fetching README files from repositories and displaying them in a user-friendly interface for offline browsing.