Taeho Jo is an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he applies deep learning to Alzheimer's disease research, from discovering genetic variants to analyzing brain imaging and biomarkers. He created SWAT and a family of models including Deep-Block, TrUE-Net, and DuAL-Net. He holds a PhD in computational biology.
He is also the developer of AlphaGenome MCP, an open-source tool that connects the AlphaGenome genomics model to Claude Code and Claude Desktop, letting scientists run complex analyses in plain language.
Before academia, he worked as a software engineer at Macromedia Korea, now part of Adobe. His Deep Learning for Everyone has been a bestseller and a university textbook in Korea for years, and his guide to Claude Code reached number one in the IT category at the country's major bookstores. Claude Code in Action is its English edition.