"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." — Gabriel García Márquez
affiliation
Undergraduate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and Biology. Researcher at Skolnick Lab (Georgia Tech) and Research Fellow at Shakhnovich Lab (Harvard).
interests
Machine learning × biology. Drug discovery. Protein design & structure prediction. Cellular modeling. Biosecurity in the era of generative AI.
beyond
Avid reader of fiction--poetry and prose. Enthusiast of visual arts, theater, and dance. Please feel free to reach out if my work or focii pique your interest.
publications & writing
Research
Know Your Scientist: KYC as Biosecurity Infrastructure
Restricted Release of Advanced Biological Models Safeguards Biosecurity
Resilient Biosecurity in the Era of AI-Enabled Bioweapons
Agricultural Biosecurity in the Age of Biological AI
A General Framework for Injecting Biophysical Priors into Protein Embeddings
Adversarial Sequence Mutations in AlphaFold and ESMFold Reveal Nonphysical Structural Invariance, Confidence Failures, and Concerns for Protein Design
AlphaInterp: Probing AlphaFold 3's Internal Representations Reveals Evolutionary Determinants of Predicted Structure and Confidence
AF3Complex Yields Improved Structural Predictions of Protein Complexes
Combining Structural Modeling and Deep Learning to Calculate the E. coli Protein Interactome and Functional Networks
Optimizing Social Media Annotation of HPV Vaccine Skepticism Using Large Language Models
personal
Collections
Beloved
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
↗ goodreadsThe Charge of the Light Brigade
"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."
↗ poetry foundationA Memory of Light
"There are no endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending."
↗ goodreadsLove in the Time of Cholera
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
↗ goodreadsBecause I Could Not Stop for Death
"Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me."
↗ poetry foundationThe Way of Kings
"Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination."
↗ goodreads
Woman with a Parasol — Monet
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Seurat
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt
Judith Beheading Holofernes — Gentileschi
The Torment of Saint Anthony — Michelangelo
The Cardsharps — Caravaggio
The Anger of Achilles — David
Skeletons Warming Themselves — Ensor
Las Meninas — Velázquez
Almond Blossoms — van Gogh
Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen — Turner
Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes — Snyders