Experience

Arc Institute

May 2025 - Present

Bio AI Researcher

Leading the BioReason team with Vector Institute to build reasoning foundation models that connect DNA, proteins, and disease pathways using reinforcement learning and multimodal biology.

Cohere

April 2025 - August 2025

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Built large-scale synthetic data pipelines across 1,024 GPUs, boosting math reasoning in foundation models and integrating real-time monitoring with Kubernetes and Grafana.

INSERM

July 2023 - September 2024

Machine Learning Researcher

First-authored CodonTransformer (Nature Communications), a model that optimizes DNA sequences for protein expression across 160+ species, now used by thousands of biologists worldwide.

University Health Network (UHN)

September 2024 - Present

Health AI Researcher

Developing MedRAX, a medical reasoning agent for chest X-rays that combines vision-language models with clinical tools, open-sourced with 700+ stars and 1M+ views.

Vector Institute

January 2024 - December 2024

Applied Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Published EHRMamba (ML4H ’24), an efficient EHR foundation model, and co-led multimodal model training on 17M+ biomedical image-text pairs for medical representation learning.

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

September 2024 - May 2025

AI Research Collaborator

Co-first authored NeurIPS ’25 work investigating privacy and memorization risks in healthcare foundation models trained on de-identified data.