Vinay Saji
Mathew

Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in the Industrial Engineering Department at Penn State. While my training is mostly in the "how" of optimization and machine learning, my current research is driven by the "where". Specifically, I work on algorithms to accelerate protein structure prediction. By compressing the heavy computational steps these generative models usually require, the goal is to make processes like drug design and virtual screening more practical for researchers. My work is a collaborative effort between the LISA Lab and the Lai Lab at Cornell. It is generously funded by the Epigenomics Facility at Cornell University and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State, with computing support from the NSF (Award #CIS260116). We open-source all of our work here.