Eric J Ma's Website

I recently figured out two tips to make GitHub actions play nicely with conda installations. Here they are.

I've been involved in quite a few rounds of hiring. I've also seen a lot of LinkedIn posts by junior data scientists complaining about the state of the job market. In this post, I'd like to provide personal reflections on the hiring process that I've experienced written from the perspective of someone participating in the hiring team.

I've been asked some questions about my career trajectory, and thanks to a call with Zarrar Shezad, I finally decided to pen down my answers to career trajectory questions.

This is a blog post I've been wanting to put out for a while. It's about a really cool paper that I had the privilege of working on with colleagues at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR). If you have institutional access, you can read the paper online. Here is my layman's summary of the paper.

Moderna's DSAI team, the team I'm on, is hiring! Read on to get links to the postings and get a glimpse into the inner workings of my head as I look through resumes.

I recently started experimenting with GitHub codespaces and I wanted to share a bit about my experience.

In this post, I formally introduce the nxviz package, a rational network visualization package with beautiful defaults made for Pythonistas. I created it alongside many contributors, to whom I'm supremely thankful and indebted. Come learn more about nxviz!

Does finding ancestors and descendants of a node apply to undirected graphs, or do they apply to directed graphs only? The answer is less intuitive than we might think.

I test-drove Coiled Computing's product, and it's magical. Let me tell you why!

I figured out how to make my custom source code libraries installable in a Binder container - and do it in a way that preserves flexibility while still being easy to use.