About Me

I am a PhD student studying Biomedical Engineering at University of Toronto. My PhD supervisor is Michael Garton. My recent work includes developing a model for designing viral capsid proteins to evade pre-existing antibodies, published in Nature Machine Intelligence. I am currently working as a summer research intern at Microsoft Research New England Lab (BioML Team). Mentored by Kevin K. Yang and Alex Lu, I am working on deep cross-species protein adaptation for protein deimmunization and other applications.

I come from a biology background with multiple wet lab research experience spanning different therapeutic topics. For my PhD, I shifted my focus to computational methods and deep learning in particular. I am enthusiastic about formulating therapeutic protein engineering problems into well-defined computational tasks, and applying generative modeling and other machine learning techniques to solve them.

Aside from research, I enjoy watching movies, listening to Jazz, biking, DIY, cooking, and painting. I am a proud mom of a cute tabby cat named Smelly.