Peter Koo

Dr. Peter Koo is an Associate Professor at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he leads a research group developing robust and interpretable deep learning methods for genomics. His lab has pioneered biologically grounded model architectures, rigorous training strategies for genomic deep learning models, and interpretable AI tools to understand and dissect cis-regulatory mechanisms. Their work bridges machine learning and biology to accelerate scientific discovery and guide precision medicine, with ongoing efforts focused on improving model generalization across genomic contexts and developing generative AI to better understand and design regulatory sequences.