Education
- Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry, Boston University
- B.S. in Chemistry, New York University
Advisor: David Coker
Built physics-heavy models to figure out how molecules behave, especially in photosynthesis and proteins. Learned that “just one more overnight job” is a lie scientists tell themselves while debugging FORTRAN at 2 A.M.
Advisor: Mark E. Tuckerman
Discovered that research is 10% theory and 90% getting scripts to actually run. Worked on computational chemistry projects, learned quantum mechanics. This is where an “interesting class” turned into “okay, this is my career now.”
Work Experience
- Proxima (formerly VantAI)
- Biogen
Helped run AI-powered discovery projects, built tools as well as workflows to screen absurdly large chemical libraries, and worked with teams to turn “this looks cool” into “this might cure something.” Equal parts scientist, coder, and professional molecule whisperer.
Predicted which drug ideas were worth pursuing before anyone had to put on safety goggles. Used simulations and machine learning to save the lab from chasing bad ideas and to make the good ones look better. Think fortune teller, but instead of tarot cards used Python and physics.
