Saee Paliwal
Manager, Drug Discovery AI at NVIDIA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaee Paliwal is an interdisciplinary AI leader with 12 years of experience applying cutting-edge machine learning to drug discovery, bridging academic rigor from a PhD in Machine Learning and Computational Cognitive Science with product-focused roles at BenevolentAI and NVIDIA. She has built foundational AI stacks—including tensor factorization for graph link prediction, causal inference on Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, and large language models for biomedical Q&A—while establishing evaluation frameworks and data science roadmaps that translate research into robust, human-in-the-loop pipelines. As a site lead and manager she combines people leadership with technical stewardship, growing teams, setting scientific direction, and championing inclusive cultures that develop others. Her background in modeling human decision-making and prior quantitative trading experience give her a rare blend of mechanistic understanding, probabilistic thinking, and practical risk-aware engineering.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Research Rotation Bayesian Cognitive Modelling and Probabilistic Programming, Research Rotation Bayesian Cognitive Modelling and Probabilistic Programming at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA Physics, BA Physics at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning and Computational Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Machine Learning and Computational Cognitive Science at ETH Zürich
German, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (10)
statistical-learning8
neuroscience7
probabilistic6
bayesian-inference6
science5
machine-learning4
system-programming4
probabilistic-programming3
python3
data-analysis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
saeepaliwal/dbs_pd_analysis_pipeline
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Scripts for DBS PD data analysis.
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
dbsdata-analysispython
saeepaliwal/breakspear_slot_machine
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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