Jake Leung is a research student at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He graduated and obtained a Part II medical laboratory technologist license in 2019, the same year Hong Kong began responding to SARS-CoV-2. Gilman Siu employed Jake to analyse Oxford Nanopore sequencing data, where he also acquired knowledge and skill sets in phylogenetic analysis. Following the pandemic, he became a research student under Siu, focusing on bacterial outbreaks, and his current research project centers on core genome phylogeny.