Research
In the past, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a variety of exciting research projects!
Genentech
At Genentech, I worked on benchmarking the capability of molecule captions to enhance property prediction.
University of Illinois
I’ve been working with the Molecule Maker Lab Institute on integrating molecule and text information. We’re working on integrating new methodologies with real-world laboratory experimentation for drug and material discovery (stay tuned)! Past work includes proposing multiple novel tasks such as cross-modal retrieval: Text2Mol (EMNLP2021)
and cross-modal generation: Translation between Molecules and Natural Language (EMNLP 2022).
Here is the poster for Text2Mol.
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) - Semantic Scholar Team
I had a great time working on drug synergy with LLMs during summer 2022 at the Semantic Scholar team. The project evolved from semi-parameteric language models using the literature to in-context learning and drug design. See our preprint here.
Carnegie Mellon University
During summer 2019, I worked at CMU as a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar. I conducted research in the Auton Lab with Prof. Artur Dubrawski working on detecting organizations in online escort advertisements. I used several similarity measures using tools like fastText word embeddings, face recognition, and others.
University of Zurich
During Fall 2018, I studied abroad at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. While I was there, I worked on creating joint embeddings between images and knowledge graphs. My project report is here.
Oak Ridge National Lab
I interned at ORNL during the summers of 2017 and 2018 through the HERE and DOE SULI programs respectively. I worked on optimizing phase values in continuous subarrayed radar arrays using metaheuristic techniques like genetic algorithms and simulated annealing.
University of Tennessee
From fall 2016 to spring 2018, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant. I worked on molecular dynamics simulations and data analysis. I also performed Brownian dynamics simulations of flowing polymer solutions, and I extracted solution properties from the resulting data.
