Amy Lu
Senior Research Scientist at University of California, Berkeley
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Lu is a Senior Research Scientist based in London who applies advanced machine learning to biological design and discovery, currently building post-AlphaFold3 models on Isomorphic Labs’ Foundations team. With a decade of interdisciplinary experience spanning Google Brain, insitro, and academic appointments at UC Berkeley (PhD candidate) and University of Toronto, she blends deep learning, protein sequence representation, and high-throughput biological data to accelerate drug discovery. Her work bridges industry-scale model training and rigorous academic research—she has trained language models to infer protein function and developed contrastive, parameter-efficient embeddings for proteins. Beyond core research, Amy has a track record connecting patients, researchers, and industry through open biomedical initiatives, reflecting a practical commitment to translational impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBayview Secondary School, Bayview Secondary School at International BaccalaureateMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Science - BS Honours Science Bioinformatics Option, Bachelor of Science - BS Honours Science Bioinformatics Option at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (31)
protein-structure9
self-attention9
memory-efficient8
proteins8
building-blocks8
pytorch8
evolutionary7
webdataset7
data-augmentation7
bert-embeddings7
modeling6
gpu6
scale5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
amyxlu/dotfiles
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
amyxlu/amyxlu.github.io
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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