About Me

I am a Principal Machine Learning Scientist and Group Leader at Prescient Design • Genentech. I lead the Foundation Models for Drug Discovery Team (Frey Lab). I am an inventor and co-lead of Lab-in-the-loop, a machine learning system for autonomous therapeutic antibody design. I have a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. I have published more than 20 scientific papers in journals such as Science Advances, Nature_Machine_Intelligence, ACS Nano, and JACS, and conference proceedings including NeurIPS and ICLR. My work on discrete generative modeling of proteins won an Outstanding Paper award at ICLR.

I am a scientific advisor to Atomic Data Sciences and Guide Labs.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT working with the Lincoln Lab Supercomputing and AI groups. I was a National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellow at UPenn and an affiliate scientist with the Materials Project at Berkeley Lab.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my work or want to get in touch.