Kieran Didi
BioML Researcher
Excited about Drug Discovery, Protein Design and Entrepreneurship.
- Location
- Germany
- kieran.didi@gmail.com
- Kieran Didi
Experience
– present
ML Researcher at NVIDIA
Generative Modelling for Biomolecules
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AI Research Scientist (Intern) at Absci
- ML for antibody design
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Visiting Researcher at MILA
- Working with Recursion Valence team on GNNs for protein-ligand complexes
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ML Engineer Intern at EMBL EBI
- working on FAIR ML for protein design
- built repository of reproducible ML pipelines in biology
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Software Engineer Intern at CSIRO
- developing cloud-native software for DNA analysis using Spark, AWS and Terraform
- published an IaC Terraform module for creating EMR Serverless applications on AWS
– present
Communications Lead at Nucleate UK, Cambridge Chapter
- Coordinating the communication strategy for Nucleate Cambridge, reaching students, inventors, and investors.
– present
Consultant at PTNG Consulting
- conducting ML and bioinformatic analysis as well as literature research in order to communicate insights
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Thesis Student at University of Cambridge
- designed peptide therapeutics and worked on screening system
- built database for high-quality antibody sequences, including data quality control and annotation
- developed ML models with PyTorch and processing pipeline to quantify nativeness of antibody sequences
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Research Intern at BioMedX Innovation Center
Team IAA in cooperation with Janssen Pharmaceuticals:
- worked on a screening system for autoimmune diseases
- identification of auto-antigens, construction of T cell reporter lines
Volunteer
– present
Communications Lead, Cambridge Chapter at Nucleate UK
Organized nationwide comms strategy for empowering biotech talents
Highlights
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Internship Officer at Förderverein der Biologie-Olympiade
In the context of the Biology Olympiad, I organize internships for successful and motivated participants and am the responsible coordinator between the pupils and the supervising professors or PhD students.
Highlights
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Conference Coordinator at Studierendenrat Heidelberg
As a member of the Conference Administration of the Student Council Heidelberg, I organized and led the conferences and worked together with people from all different backgrounds on proposals.
Highlights
Education
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MPhil in Computational Biology from Cambridge University with GPA of
Courses
- Theory of Deep Learning
- ML Systems
- optimisation
- biological design
- genomics I+II
- systems biology
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Master of Science - MS in Biochemistry, focus Computer Science from Heidelberg University with GPA of 1.0 (best in year, German scale)
Courses
- machine learning I+II
- operating systems + networks
- GPU computing
- numerics
- software development
- algorithms & data structures
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Exchange Scholarship in Chemistry (Part II) from University of Cambridge with GPA of /
Courses
- math. methods
- symmetry
- cheminformatics
- theoretical chemistry
- scientific programming
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Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Heidelberg University with GPA of 1.0 (best in year, German scale)
Courses
- bioinformatics
- statistical learning
- molecular biology
- protein engineering
- organic chemistry
Awards
DAAD and Studienstiftung scholarship from DAAD, Studienstiftung
Received two scholarships for my master’s studies at Cambridge due to academic grades and performance at interviews
Sartorius STEM scholarship from Sartorius
Received the Sartorius scholarship due to academic achievements and performance at video interview and in-person assesment center
ICU Scholarship from QX - Quaterly Crossing
One of seven finalists awarded the ICU Scholarship by the business and leadership network QX. The scholarships allows participation in international conferences such as the MBA World Summit or the Leadership Conference, includes intensive management mentoring and a lot of different activities to foster exchange between the scholars and the network.
German Academic Foundation Scholarship from German Academic Foundation
Full scholarship for both undergraduate and master’s studies
Silver Medal from International Biology Olympiad
Came in second in nationwide competition, silver medal at the international competition in Teheran.
NanoBio Vice-winner from Deutscher Verband Nanotechnologie e.V.
At the “NanoBio” Competition, my team and I came in second nationwide for our project in which we constructed artificial muscle fibres out of Nylon and analyzed their properties.
DECHEMAX Top 10 Germany from DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e.V.
At the “DECHEMAX” competition my team and I were chosen as one of the ten best teams in Germany for our experimental performance.
Languages
- German
- Fluency: Native Speaker
- English
- Fluency: Native Speaker
- French
- Fluency: Elementary proficiency
Skills
- Python
- Level: professional
- R
- Level: Intermediate
- C++
- Level: Intermediate
- ML for Biology
- Level: professional
- Cloud Computing
- Level: Intermediate
- AWS
- Level: Intermediate
- Terraform
- Level: professional
- Web Development
- Level: Intermediate
- Immunology
- Level: professional
