I’m Chaitanya, an AI researcher working on Deep Learning for Biomolecule design.
I’m currently a final year CS PhD student at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò. I’m supported by the A*STAR National Science Scholarship and Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. I’ve previously interned at Prescient Design, Genentech and FAIR Chemistry, Meta AI, as well as been a visitor at Phil Holliger’s group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
Research interests:
PhD in Computer Science, 2022 – 2025
University of Cambridge, UK
B.Eng. in Computer Science, 2015 – 2019
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
First broadly generalizable diffusion model for 3D molecular generation. State-of-the-art results for periodic crystals and non-periodic molecular systems through transfer learning. (ICML 2025 & Spotlight at ICLR 2025 Workshop)
A new generative toolkit for inverse design of 3D RNA structure. gRNAde has been validated in wet labs, achieving expert-level accuracy and outperforming all previous computation methods at designing RNA structure and function. (ICLR 2025 Spotlight & invited book chapter for Methods in Molecular Biology)
A ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ introducing deep learning for molecular modelling—written without the goal of publication—if we could travel back in time and learn from it at the start of our PhDs! 🤗