I have spent my whole career doing AI research with applications to the biomedical sciences both at startups and in academia. In my PhD advised by Nobel Laureate David Baker, I initiated efforts to develop AI algorithms to model and design biomolecular interactions resulting in nine publications including a first author Science paper and a co-corresponding author Nature Methods paper.

My ultimate goal is to unlock precision N of 1 medicines for any patient in the world.

My current research interests are:

1. How do we tokenize and create shared representations for several modalities of biological data in a single model? We have no way to ask more complex questions about biology that would require reasoning over multiple data modalities.

2. How do we create models of biological systems that will enable us to predict specific outcomes for specific patients? This has two parts, we need inputs to the model that uniquely identify the biological state of a patient and then we need to know how to predict the response to a specific treatment.

Previously, I was a software engineer at Denali therapeutics and received my BS/BA in Chemical Biology and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.