"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." — Gabriel García Márquez
about

affiliation

Undergraduate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying Computer Science, Mathematics, and Biology. Undergraduate Research Scientist at the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI, NIST), Researcher at the Skolnick Lab (Georgia Tech), and Visiting Undergraduate Researcher at the Sabeti Lab (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard). Formerly a Research Fellow (now adjunct) at the Shakhnovich Lab (Harvard).

interests

Machine learning × biology. Drug discovery. Protein design & structure prediction. Cellular modeling. Biosecurity in the era of generative AI.

research

My research lies at the intersection of machine learning and molecular biology. I develop computational methods to understand protein structure and interactions, predict the effects of mutations, and detect emerging pathogens, with the goal of enabling more precise and evolution-resistant therapeutics.

beyond

Avid reader of literature, poetry, and history. Enthusiast of visual arts, theater, and dance. Please feel free to reach out if any of my work or interests pique your curiosity.

personal

Collections

A few of my favorite books, poems, and paintings.

Favorite books, poems & plays

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

↗ poetry foundation

100 Years of Solitude

"There is always something left to love."

↗ goodreads

The Master and Margarita

"Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that."

↗ goodreads

Wuthering Heights

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

↗ gutenberg

Beloved

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

↗ goodreads

Song of Solomon

"If you surrender to the air, you can ride it."

↗ goodreads

The Charge of the Light Brigade

"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."

↗ poetry foundation

Adonais

"And Love taught Grief to fall like music from his tongue."

↗ poetry foundation

Nothing Gold Can Stay

"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold."

↗ poetry foundation

Manfred

"I would be free, even in bonds."

↗ archive.org

Ode on a Grecian Urn

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all."

↗ poetry foundation

Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

↗ gutenberg

A Memory of Light

"There are no endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending."

↗ goodreads

Love in the Time of Cholera

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

↗ goodreads

The Circular Ruins

"He also was an illusion, that someone else was dreaming him."

↗ goodreads

Dulce Et Decorum Est

"The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

↗ poetry foundation

Lady Lazarus

"Out of the ash I rise with my red hair."

↗ poetry foundation

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

"Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me."

↗ poetry foundation

The Fifth Season

"Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind."

↗ goodreads

The Way of Kings

"Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination."

↗ goodreads

The Name of the Wind

"As names have power, words have power."

↗ goodreads

The Power Broker

"If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?"

↗ goodreads

Master of the Senate

"If you do everything, you'll win."

↗ goodreads

Grant

"I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three."

↗ goodreads

Man's Search for Meaning

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

↗ goodreads

The Burning White

"What you do forms who you are. Then who you are forms what you do."

↗ goodreads

Lost

"No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren."

↗ grateful.org

No Man Is an Island

"No man is an island, entire of itself."

↗ allpoetry

Kubla Khan

"For he on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise."

↗ poetry foundation

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small."

↗ poetry foundation

Favorite paintings
Woman with a Parasol — Monet

Woman with a Parasol — Monet

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Seurat

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — Seurat

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt

Judith Beheading Holofernes — Gentileschi

Judith Beheading Holofernes — Gentileschi

The Torment of Saint Anthony — Michelangelo

The Torment of Saint Anthony — Michelangelo

The Cardsharps — Caravaggio

The Cardsharps — Caravaggio

The Anger of Achilles — David

The Anger of Achilles — David

Skeletons Warming Themselves — Ensor

Skeletons Warming Themselves — Ensor

Las Meninas — Velázquez

Las Meninas — Velázquez

Almond Blossoms — van Gogh

Almond Blossoms — van Gogh

Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen — Turner

Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen — Turner

Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes — Snyders

Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes — Snyders

The Seventh Plague of Egypt — Martin

The Seventh Plague of Egypt — Martin

Water Mill — Thaulow

Water Mill — Thaulow

Portrait of Mademoiselle C. — Cassatt

Portrait of Mademoiselle C. — Cassatt

The Window — Bonnard

The Window — Bonnard

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill — Trumbull

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill — Trumbull