Awards & Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
National Science Foundation · 2021–2025
Fulbright New Zealand Science & Innovation Graduate Award
Fulbright New Zealand · 2026

Patents & Disclosures

Aeroponic Bioreactor
Aeroponic Bacterial Cellulose Bioreactor
Y. Tseo, S. Kim, I. W. Hunter · 2025
Patent Pending
Lactose Paints
Lactose Paints
Y. Tseo, I. W. Hunter · U.S. Patent Application No. 63/705,279 · 2024
Patent Application
BslA Secretion
Plasmid for BslA Secretion in Komagataeibacter rhaeticus and NaOH Treatment
Y. Tseo, M. Guempel, C. Hogan, I. W. Hunter · 2025
Patent Pending

Publications

Protein Subcellular Localization
Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localization in Single Cells
Y. Tseo*, X. Zhang*, Y. Bai, F. Chen, C. Uhler
Nature Methods (2025) · DOI:10.1038/s41592-025-02696-1
Nature MIT News
Bacterial Cellulose Origami
Renewable Self-Folding Origami Constructed from Bioengineered Bacterial Cellulose
Y. Tseo*, M. Guempel, C. Hogan, I. W. Hunter
Living Machines (2025)
Springer bioRxiv
Synechocystis Bioreactor
An Open-Source Modular Bioreactor Platform for Cultivation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Extraction of Intracellular Glucose
I. Baho, Y. Tseo, Y. Zu, V. Padia, I. W. Hunter
Processes 2025, 13, 2985
MDPI
Engineered Parasitism
Engineered Parasitism: Automated Cyanobacteria Conversion to Bacterial Leather for Carbon Sequestration
I. Baho*, Y. Tseo*, A. Brown, V. Padia, I. W. Hunter
In preparation
Uruguay Project
Identification of participants in the Uruguay Crece Contigo Family Support Program
C. Berón, R. Vargas Sainz, Y. Tseo
Master's thesis, UTEC Montevideo · Ministry of Social Development (2024)
ResearchGate El Observador MIT MISTI
Atom-by-Atom Catalysts
Atom-by-Atom Designs of Metal Oxide Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
J. R. Lunger, J. Karaguesian, H. Chun, J. Peng, Y. Tseo, J. Shan, B. Han, Y. Shao-Horn, R. Gomez-Bombarelli
Nature Computational Materials, 10, 80 (2024) · DOI:10.1038/s41524-024-01273-y
Nature
Phage Display
Sparse Proxy Learning Improves Discovery Rate in Next-Generation Sequencing Phage Display
Y. Tseo*, J. Brown*, M. A. Lee, J. Y. K. Kong, S. Yang, Y. Cho, C. R. Kim, A. Loas, R. Derda, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, B. L. Pentelute
ChemRxiv (2023)
ChemRxiv
Unsupervised ML Peptide
Unsupervised Machine Learning Leads to an Abiotic Picomolar Peptide Ligand
J. Brown, S. Mohapatra, M. A. Lee, R. Misteli, Y. Tseo, N. M. Grob, A. J. Quartararo, A. Loas, R. Gomez-Bombarelli, B. L. Pentelute
ChemRxiv (2023)
ChemRxiv
Clinical Trial
Information Extraction of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria
Y. Tseo, M. I. Salkola, A. Mohamed, A. Kumar, F. Abnousi
KDD Workshop on Applied Data Science for Healthcare (2020) · arXiv:2006.07296
arXiv Meta Research

Presentations & Posters

Future Growth and Gaia Theory
Y. Tseo · Ars Electronica Festival · Linz, Austria · September 2025
Future of Art Science Research
Y. Tseo · Ars Electronica Festival · Linz, Austria · September 2025
Ars Electronica
Inside Futurelab: The Impact We Want to Create
Y. Tseo · Ars Electronica Festival · Linz, Austria · September 2025
Ars Electronica
Bacterial Cellulose Self-Folding Origami
Y. Tseo, M. Guempel · Living Machines 2025 · Sheffield, UK
Carbon Negative Bacterial Leather Production from Cyanobacteria Feedstocks in a Fully Automated Setting
Y. Tseo*, I. Baho*, V. Padia, C. Hogan, I. W. Hunter · International Biofabrication Conference · Fukuoka, Japan · November 2024
Proposal for Renewable Soft Robotics: A Novel Biohybrid Actuator Scaffolded from Myofibrils and Conductive Polymers
Y. Tseo, I. W. Hunter · MIT CSB Retreat · Kennebunkport, ME · 2023
Poster
Mapping the World with Deep Learning
D. Bonafilia, Y. Tseo, S. Blackshear, B. Yiang · Williams College Invited Tech Talk Series · Williamstown, MA · September 2018
AdaptiveSync: Self-Optimization of Mutual Exclusion and Read-Write Advisory Locks
Y. Tseo, A. Majercik, S. Freund · Williams College Summer Poster Session · Williamstown, MA · 2015
Poster
Investigating Catalytic Conformational Changes of Methionine Synthases
I. Outhwaite, Y. Tseo, R. Taurog · Williams College Summer Poster Session · Williamstown, MA · June 2014
Poster

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