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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

Diane Wu, Ph.D.

My mother.

My mom was a tomboy, born the youngest child with two older brothers. She married at 25 to the first man she dated. Her name is 红新…

5 min readDec 11, 2020

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My mother.

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

What I learned from two years of Leadership Groups

In 2018, I met the love of my life. A few months into the relationship, we had one of our first real fights. As emotions started rising…

11 min readSep 1, 2020

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What I learned from two years of Leadership Groups

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.
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Three Types of Men

I’ve learned in recent years that there are three types of men in the world: Allies, Oppressors, and Enablers.

8 min readJul 29, 2020

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Three Types of Men

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

5 Tips to Make Reference Checks Your Secret Weapon in Successful Hiring

Hint: It’s not just about filtering out terrible people

8 min readJun 24, 2020

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5 Tips to Make Reference Checks Your Secret Weapon in Successful Hiring

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

On Anger

As an Asian-American, I was taught from a young age to keep my head low. Strangers yelled at us in line at the grocery store to go back to…

4 min readMay 30, 2020

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

A boy named Kenny

Kenny was a rambunctious playful kid with spiky hair and big brown eyes. The kind of kid who would make a lot of noise acting like an…

7 min readMay 4, 2020

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

One week of veganism

Last weekend my boyfriend and I watched a movie on Netflix called “The Game Changers”, produced by James Cameron. It was recommended to me…

14 min readNov 25, 2019

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One week of veganism

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

How my father raised me

My father raised me as a tomboy. Sometimes I joke that he raised me as the boy he wanted to have given the one-child policy in China in…

5 min readNov 7, 2019

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How my father raised me

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

Beginning an exciting new chapter

Four and a half years ago, Poornima and I started a company to try to convince the world that they should start sequencing soil. Most…

3 min readOct 11, 2019

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

Cooking in a feminist kitchen

I love cooking. I love the crisp of chopping fresh vegetables, the smell of cilantro, and the sizzle of oil on the pan. I love being an…

3 min readSep 8, 2019

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Diane Wu, Ph.D.

Diane Wu, Ph.D.

Product & ML. Co-founder @ Trace Genomics. Machine learning engineer @ Palantir, Deep-learning data scientist @ MetaMind, Genetics @ Stanford, CS @ Simon Fraser

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