1) AI for Drug Discovery

Aikium - Berkeley, CA 

ML Lead - Generative Modelling (2024 - Present)
🧬 Finetuned seq-to-seq models to design high-affinity, soluble binders targeting disordered GPCR regions
⚙️ Building ML infrastructure that can generate & evaluate 100 k+ candidate proteins per target in hours
🤖 Experimenting with agentic pipelines that chain foundation models, folding, and filtering tools for fully-automated lead discovery

2) AI Non-Profits

Artpark - IISc Bangalore 

Director of ML (2023 - Present)
Artpark is a non-profit housed within Indian Institue of Science - Bangalore 
🎉 Winner of Two grants out of 1300 submissions for Gates Foundation's LLM Grand Challenge
Raise as co-PI ~750K and built a team of 6 ML Engineers

Projects:
Collaboration with Armman: LLM assistant for Front Line Workers 

Papers:
First authored a comprehensive policy white paper for AI task force at  Gatech Foundation outlining the potential and pitfalls of building LLMs for LMICs (2024)

Wadhwani AI

Machine Learning Scientist and Manager (2020 - 2022)
Non-profit focused on Socially Impactful ML applications. 
Founding CEO P Anandan

Projects:
Cough against Covid: Paper, Code, Model and Dataset

Cotton Pest Management: Poster@Neurips 2023, Paper, Code, Challenge, Impact

Newborn Anthropometry: Blog, Fast Company's World-Changing Idea 

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