William Connell

Joined

September 2022

Names

William Connell (Preferred)

Emails

****@keiserlab.org (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@transcriptabio.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of California, San Francisco (ucsf.edu)

2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Michael Keiser

2019 – 2022

Expertise

computational biology; precision medicine; systems biology

Present

Publications

LLM Kernel: an evaluation framework for open-ended scientific interpretation
William Connell, Drishti Guin, Clayton Mellina
- NeurIPS2025-AI4Science Poster
- Readers: Everyone
PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction
Aaron Wenteler, Martina Occhetta, Nikhil Branson, Victor Curean, Magdalena Huebner, William Dee, William Connell, Siu Pui Chung, Alex Hawkins-Hooker, Yasha Ektefaie, César Miguel Valdez Córdova, Amaya Gallagher-Syed
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction
Aaron Wenteler, Martina Occhetta, Nikhil Branson, Magdalena Huebner, William Dee, Victor Curean, William Connell, Siu Pui Chung, Yasha Ektefaie, Amaya Gallagher-Syed, César Miguel Valdez Córdova
- AIDrugX Poster
- Readers: Everyone
PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction
Aaron Wenteler, Martina Occhetta, Nikhil Branson, Magdalena Huebner, William Dee, Victor Curean, William Connell, Alex Hawkins-Hooker, Siu Pui Chung, Yasha Ektefaie, Amaya Gallagher-Syed, César Miguel Valdez Córdova
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Predicting Cellular Drug Sensitivity using Conditional Modulation of Gene Expression
William Connell, Michael James Keiser
- NeurIPS LMRL 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Learning chemical sensitivity reveals mechanisms of cellular response
William Connell, Kristle Garcia, Hani Goodarzi, Michael James Keiser
- bioarxiv
- Readers: Everyone
A single-cell gene expression language model
William Connell, Umair Khan, Michael Keiser
- 09 Oct 2022 (modified: 15 Feb 2026)
- LMRL 2022 Paper
- Readers: Everyone

William Connell

Names

Emails

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Expertise

Publications

LLM Kernel: an evaluation framework for open-ended scientific interpretation

PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction

PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction

PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction

Predicting Cellular Drug Sensitivity using Conditional Modulation of Gene Expression

Learning chemical sensitivity reveals mechanisms of cellular response

A single-cell gene expression language model

Co-Authors