Ji Won Park
Machine Learning Scientist - Frontier Research, Prescient Design, Computational Sciences
5
Years at Genentech
7
Publications at Genentech
During my Ph.D. in physics, I studied the origin and evolution of the Universe using deep probabilistic modeling. Uncertainty quantification is key in astrophysics, where the telescope optics and the Earth’s atmosphere complicate signals coming from distant galaxies. But complexity riddles protein structure as well. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I was motivated to transfer the probabilistic paradigm to the socially impactful field of computational protein design.