experience
Professional experience in AI, deep learning, and scientific research
Experience
NVIDIA
Applied Research Manager, 2022-Present
Lead benchmarking efforts for virtual cell models, including internal and external collaborations
Developed benchmarking framework and tooling for model assessment and reproducibility
Collaboration with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on cz-benchmarks for evaluating virtual cell models
Scientific Lead, BioNeMo, 2019-2023
R&D Manager and Scientific Lead for Clara Discovery, NVIDIA’s platform for accelerating drug discovery
Developed BioNeMo for pre-training and fine tuning of large language models for cheminformatics and proteomics
Senior AI and Deep Learning Scientist, 2019-2023
Focused on proteomics including deep learning models to predict peptide spectral matches with >95% F1
Led team using GCNNs to predict molecular properties
BenevolentAI
Senior Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, 2018-2019
Matrix factorization and GCNNs for drug mechanism importance in knowledge graphs
3D CNNs for ligand pose and affinity prediction
NVIDIA
Senior Deep Learning Consultant, 2017-2018
Assisted clients in pharmaceutical and materials science in utilizing deep learning
National Cancer Institute
Scientist, 2014-2016
Developed parallelized, compressed sensing methods for NMR data reconstruction
Columbia University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2008-2014
Demonstrated conformational selection in DNA methyltransferase AlkB
Developed multiple quantum NMR spin relaxation experiments
Advisor: Professor Arthur G. Palmer, III