Reza E.

PostDoc

McGaheysville, United States

Experience

May 2025 - Present
7 months

PostDoc

University of Florida

  • 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.

Languages

Persian
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2019 - Jun 2024

University of Florida

PhD · Chemistry · United States

Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

University of Tehran

MSc · Biotechnology · Iran, Islamic Republic of

Oct 2011 - Jun 2015

University of Kurdistan

BSc · Biotechnology · Iran, Islamic Republic of

Certifications & licenses

Antibody Engineering Certificate

Schrödinger

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