Bio

I am the CTO at Cyclana Bio, where I lead our computational efforts. This role is very wide-ranging, covering technical aspects like our cloud and on-premesis lab infrastructure, our deployment of EDC software for observational clinical trials, and all of our data and analysis strategies and implementation. I am unusually interdisciplinary, having developed deep expertise in biology, functional genomics, human genetics, and machine learning, all the while developing a more robust, engineering mindset. I am most effective when working across these areas, and I have found that modern AI tools have made radically more productive across all of them.

In the past:

• I have led a machine learning team at Altos Labs in its Institute of Computation, developing large language models for epigenetics.
• I identified and developed therapeutic stories for novel targets for therapeutic intervention in SLE at Genomics.
  • In a short return stint there, I designed and prototyped their gene expression platform for Mystra, and developed the first version of their AI agent.
• I consulted for bit.bio in the earliest stages of their existence, where I developed gene expression evidence that helped them win their first research grants.
• I pioneered the first analyses of large-scale single-cell RNA-sequencing data during my PhD in John Marioni’s lab.

Education

• PhD - Marioni Lab, University of Cambridge, 2015-19
• BSc, Natural Sciences - Molecular and Cell Biology, with Atomic and Particle Physics. University College London, 2012-15