Katherine O’Grady Cody

Katherine O’Grady Cody

Graduate Student

Kate is a PhD student in the UC Berkeley–UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, co-advised by Dr. Adam Arkin and Dr. Paramvir Dehal. Her research on the KBase project involves developing agentic AI models to improve microbial gene annotation by leveraging a diverse set of online resources. Before her PhD, she was raised in Los Angeles, CA, then earned her B.B.A. in Entrepreneurship and a Chemistry minor from the University of Miami, FL., followed by her M.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Cincinnati, OH. Her prior work has included developing mass spectrometry assays in the Immunochemical Core Lab at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, serving as an engineer on strategic aerospace projects in the Defense and Intelligence Solutions Division at Southwest Research Institute, and teaching undergraduate coursework on human sensation and perception at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH. In addition to her studies, Kate serves as Co-President of Biotech@Berkeley, an organization that connects and educates graduate students on opportunities for innovation in the life sciences. She is driven by an insatiable curiosity about the world, and by the belief that science and technology together hold the key to unlocking nature’s greatest mysteries.