Designed binders on a target of interest for an experimentalist collaborator.
Developed pipelines for automation of RNA-drug interaction analysis.
Assisted with development of ML models for RNA-small molecule predictions.
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
10 months
Structural Bioinformatics Scientist
Micropep Technologies Inc.
Designed specific peptides on several protein targets using various ML-based and classical methods with in vivo efficacy. Screened over a million proteins with RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN, Rosetta, AFDesign, ESM, BindCraft, and other programs.
Maintained scientific watch on the field of protein design and computational chemistry.
Tested, benchmarked, improved and deployed several tools to meet experimental and computational needs on AWS and local workstations.
Communicated with stakeholders and wet lab colleagues to improve design pipelines and result analysis.
Achieved 96% of performance goals in 2024.
Summary
Use of computation and AI to understand and engineer molecules of life.
AI/ML-driven Protein Design, Modeling, Programming, Computational Chemistry, Cloud Computing.