I am a FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellow. I am co-advised by Sergey Ovchinnikov (MIT) and Aaron Schmidt (Ragon). I work on deep generative models of proteins, with a focus on modeling viral and immune protein sequences and structures.

I recently completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT (and a short postdoctoral stint) in Debora Marks lab at Harvard. My previous research focused on developing models to learn viral antibody escape from fitness models and biophysical and structural information. These models can be used to identify high escape variants and to design and test future-proof vaccines.