| Aug 09, 2024 | A perspective article on our innovative approach to designing synthetic SH3 domains using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) was published in Cell Systems. The article summarizes our key findings and discusses future directions for this research in protein design and understanding of orthology (see link). |
| Aug 07, 2024 | Participated and interviewed in the Argonne National Laboratory GPU Hackathon, advancing high-performance computing skills (see link). |
| Feb 27, 2024 | Launched research project: “Discovering the Design Rules Linking Protein Sequence to Function”. This study utilizes and develops advanced multi-modal generative AI models to map the relationship between protein sequences and their functions, aiming to enable the design of novel proteins with desired properties (see link). |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Our research on ProtWave-VAE featured in ACS Synthetic Biology, offering a comprehensive summary of our novel protein design methodology and its potential impact on synthetic biology (link). |
| Aug 16, 2020 | Awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, supporting ongoing doctoral studies in Biophysics (see link) |
| May 14, 2020 | Honored as the College of Sciences and Health Professions (COSHP) Valedictorian at Cleveland State University (see link). |