Graduate Research Assistant

PhD candidate in Biophysics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focused on integrating structural biology and machine learning to redefine viral protein classification. My work bridges protein modeling, cryo-EM, ligand interaction analysis, and deep learning techniques (e.g., transformers, UMAP) to explore viral evolution and drug discovery. Research interests include: structural virology, neuraminidase modeling, AI-driven bioinformatics, protein-ligand binding prediction, and rational inhibitor design. Keywords: Structural Biology, Protein Modeling, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Drug Discovery, Viral Proteins, Cryo-EM, Computational Biology, Transformer Models, UMAP, Neuraminidase, Deep Learning