Research

Currently:

• Biomolecule modeling independently since May 2025. Built affinity predictor to screen small molecules against RNA and presented at ISMB 2026. Thinking about: honest benchmarking, free energy of binding, alignment analogs in inverse design.
• Protein design with Hannes Stark and RBG since spring 2026. Using diffusion models to design proteins for collaborators at wet labs, like malaria inhibitors and monomerized enzymes for mitochondrial disease.
• Hobby topics: connectomics, interp/alignment, meditation research, reversible cryo.

Previously:

• Aleph Neuro in June to July 2026. Trained models to decode cognitive signals from neurovascular ultrasound, fixed 4x bandwidth probe, kept silent speech data factory running, and built the launch website.¹
• Nanocrystal simulations at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Aug to Sept 2026. Tuned light emission of quantum dots by inducing lattice strain, and played with custom MLIP- and DFT-based methods to model cation exchange in CdSe nanoplatelets.
• Brain & cancer statistics at George Mason, summer 2025. Used robust-statistics to mitigate artifact contamination in neuroimaging data for patient privacy. Interpreted what iStar learned about tumor and immune microenvironments.
• Olympiads: Humbling years of physics handouts and programming problems.

Footnotes

1. try clicking the 2nd occurrence of “ultrasound” on launch post :) ↩