Ava Amini
Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAva Amini is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft with 11 years of experience developing AI methods to understand and design biology, focused on translating computational advances into precision biomedicines. Trained in biophysics (PhD, Harvard) and with a BS in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from MIT, she bridges deep-learning engineering and molecular science to tackle real-world therapeutic challenges. Her work spans from academic research during a PhD to production-oriented research roles at Microsoft, and she contributes practical fixes to high-profile teaching repos like MIT's Intro to Deep Learning. Comfortable moving between code, models, and biological insight, she combines rigorous quantitative training with hands-on engineering to accelerate biologics design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Molecular Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics at Harvard UniversitySage Hill School
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Github Skills (4)
machine-learning10
neural-network10
tensorflow10
keras10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MITDeepLearning/introtodeeplearning
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
Lab Materials for MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:257 commits, 13 PRs, 322 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ava's contributions appear to focus on fixing and updating code in the first lab's notebook and addressing a missing "todo" note. These changes included defining weights, and input variables within a neural network architecture. They also update the code to reflect and implement the Keras API.
algorithmic-biasmusic-generationdeep-learninglab-materialscomputer-vision
avaamini/protease_activity_analysis
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:112 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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