Collaboration & Research Experience

Shehu AI Lab, VA, USA (Aug. ‘21 – Current)

  • Position: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Contributions: Developed multi-modal deep learning algorithms to address molecular prediction challenges, such as protein function annotation and transcription factor binding site prediction. Additionally, adapted large protein language models to interpret mutation effects and enhance homology detection.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Amarda Shehu, Professor, GMU.

Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), NM, USA (Jan. ‘24 - Current)

  • Position: Guest Student, Physics & Chemistry of Materials Group (T-1)
  • Contributions: Generating modeling of DNA breathing dynamics.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Boian Alexandrov, Theoretical Division, LANL.

Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI), WA, USA (Aug. ‘24 – Current)

  • Position: Collaboration
  • Contributions: Intragenic Complementation Effect understading and computational model development.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Aimee Dudley and Dr. Michelle Tang, PNRI.

Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), NM, USA (Feb. ‘23 - Dec. ‘23)

  • Position: Graduate Student, Physics & Chemistry of Materials Group (T-1)
  • Contributions: Advanced a thermodynamics-based nonlinear DNA model to describe DNA breathing dynamics and proposed frontier models for predicting Transcription Factor-DNA (TF-DNA) binding.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Manish Bhattarai, Staff Scientist-II, LANL.

Bromberg Lab, GA, USA (Aug. ‘24 – Current)

  • Position: Collaboration
  • Contributions: Variant effect understanding in light of supervised and unsupervised models
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Yana Bromberg, Professor, Emory University.

Shehu AI Lab (May 2020 – Aug. 2020)

  • Position: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Contributions: Designed and developed language models for challenging regressor tasks, such as protein stability.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Amarda Shehu, Professor, GMU.

Evolutionary Computation Research System (ECJ), VA, USA (May ‘19 - Aug. ‘19)

  • Position: Graduate Research Assistant
  • Contributions: Developed and tested general purpose genetic algorithms for the ECJ framework.
  • Principal Investigator: Dr. Sean Luke, Professor, GMU.