Advancing limits of data and medicine.

We are an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to building intelligent systems that solve complex challenges in computational immunology, epidemiology, and structural biology.

Scientific research lab

120+

Peer-Reviewed Papers

$4M

Active Grant Funding

Funded by and affiliated with

Research Areas

Our laboratory operates at the intersection of computational engineering and biomedical discovery.

Protein mapping

Computational Protein Folding

Using advanced neural networks to map 3D molecular structures and accelerate drug discovery pipelines.

Biomedical imaging

Biomedical Imaging Pipelines

Processing petabytes of high-throughput microscopic imagery in real-time to identify weak cellular anomalies.

Data streams

Large Scale Epidemiology

Simulating global pathogen spread using massive multi-agent statistical mechanics and spatiotemporal tracking.

Selected Publications

Our most recent peer-reviewed findings published in leading life science and computational journals.

2024

Graph Neural Networks for High-Throughput Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

E. Chen, M. Rodriguez, Dr. A. Nova

Nature Machine Intelligence, Vol 6, Issue 2.

2023

Automated Nucleolar Segmentation using Few-Shot Fluorescent Microscopy Data

Dr. A. Nova, J. Kim, L. Weber

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 42(8), 2410-2421.

2022

Scalable Bayesian Inference for Respiratory Pathogen Transmission Networks

S. Patel, Dr. A. Nova, E. Chen

Journal of Computational Biology, 29(4).

Principal Investigators & Team

Our multidisciplinary group brings together experts from biological engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics.

Dr. Alena Nova

Dr. Alena Nova

Director & Lead Computational Biologist

Dr. Marcus Chen

Dr. Marcus Chen

Epidemiologist / Statistician

Sarah Patel

Sarah Patel, PhD Candidate

Structural Biology

Dr. James Wilson

Dr. James Wilson

Bioinformatics Engineer

Open Positions & Collaborations

We are always looking for driven PhD candidates, post-docs, and industry partners to join our mission of computational scientific discovery.

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