Founding Engineer & Lead Developer · OrphaNova Nov 2025 – Present
Building OrphaNova, an AI research system for rare disease discovery. Designed a 7-stage pipeline that retrieves biomedical literature, extracts disease-gene relationships, predicts protein structures (AlphaFold2), screens drug candidates (RDKit), performs molecular docking (Chai-1), and generates publication-ready research reports.
Research Assistant · Yeshiva University Nov 2024 – Dec 2025
Developed deep learning models for cardiomegaly detection from veterinary X-rays, achieving 85.75% accuracy on 2,000+ images. Built OrphanAtlas, a rare disease research platform combining GPT-based retrieval pipelines with biomedical datasets, now used by 500+ researchers.
Received Outstanding R&D Award at the Yeshiva University Research Symposium.