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Hi! I'm a Senior Scientist at Prescient Design (Genentech) working in Large Molecule Drug Discovery led by Franziska Seeger. My research lies at the intersection of machine learning and biophysics. My work is guided by the principle that integrating deep mechanistic understanding of biological systems with AI will address critical bottlenecks in therapeutic development. I completed my PhD in 2023 at Stanford University, where I studied mechanosensitive cell adhesion proteins using biophysical (molecular biology, single-molecule force spectroscopy) and computational approaches with Alex Dunn and Bill Weis. I also interned with Microsoft Research's BioML Team in 2022 with Kevin Yang, Ava Amini, and Alex Lu to study how biophysical priors could improve ML models for protein property prediction. Additionally, I briefly worked with Ron Dror to study protein electrostatic binding interactions with MD simulations. I received my bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Polymers & Soft Matter at MIT. I worked in Brad Olsen's lab, where I studied the physics governing protein-block copolymer self-assembly, and in the Langer and Anderson labs, where I characterized protein-polymer interactions for drug delivery applications.
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