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AI Scientist @Genentech. CS PhD @UIUC. Scientific NLP, AI4Science, biology FMs, drug discovery.

Joined August 2022
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Excited to announce that AssayBench has been accepted at the NeurIPS E&D track 🎉🎉!! See below ↓ a video explaining how it works!
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Autonomous science is getting closer: systems that run experiments, learn from results, and choose what to test next. But can they learn how to experiment from existing experiments? In AssayLoop, we train across CRISPR screens to do that. Try it: genentech.github.io/AssayLoo… 🧵
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Just realized I put the wrong link for trying the model 🫠. genentech.github.io/AssayLoo… is the right one.
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Can LLMs and agents do real biology, or just talk about it? We're launching the BioReasoning Challenge 2026 at MLGenX @ #ICLR2026: an open competition asking whether language models can predict the outcome of a real perturbation experiment. genentech.github.io/BioReaso…
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Three tracks, three research questions: A. Prompt-only: find the best prompt for a fixed GPT-OSS-120B model B. Agentic: multi-agent + tool calls, same fixed LLM C. Fine-tuning: any open model <10B params (SFT, LoRA, RL, ...) Submit to one or all.
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Carl Edwards retweeted
🚀Join us tomorrow in Room 122A for our 2nd AAAI @RealAAAI AI4Research workshop🧪! We have an exciting lineup of presentations from our amazing invited speakers—don’t miss out! #AI4Research #AAAI2025 sites.google.com/view/ai4res…
Excited to share our latest on multimodal AI and agents for drug design and therapeutic reasoning #AAAI2025 @RealAAAI 📅 Monday, 9 AM – AI2ASE: AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering, ai-2-ase.github.io/schedule/ 📅 Tuesday, 10 AM – AI4Research: Knowledge-Grounded Scientific Research, sites.google.com/view/ai4res…
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