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Eric Nguyen

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Eric Nguyen

@exnx

Co-founder @ Radical Numerics PhD @ stanford @HazyResearch

Stanford, CA

Joined April 2009

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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Aug 25, 2025
✨ Excited to share a few life updates! 🎤 My TED Talk is now live! I shared the origin story of Evo, titled: "How AI could generate new life forms" TED talk: ted.com/talks/eric_ngu… ✍️ I wrote a blog post about what it’s *really* like to deliver a TED talk blog:
How AI could generate new life-forms
From ted.com
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Feb 27, 2024
Is DNA all you need? Introducing Evo, a long context 7B foundation model for biology Evo has SOTA *zero-shot* prediction across DNA, RNA, and protein modalities Evo can generate DNA, RNA+proteins & make CRISPR-Cas systems for first time blog …n-model-tool-arc-institute.vercel.app/news/blog/evo
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Mar 13, 2024
Arc and Evo team is hiring ML engineers and software folks. If you're interested in cutting edge bio + ML and making impact, I highly recommend reaching out to Brian and Patrick. We want to go big. @pdhsu @BrianHie
Patrick Hsu
@pdhsu
Feb 27, 2024
Replying to @pdhsu
By the way, if you're a software or ML engineer interested in creating life in a computer, we're hiring. Reach out to me and @BrianHie: [email protected], [email protected]
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Nov 14, 2024
Evo has been published in @science! A true privilege to work with such an amazing team! So many exciting new experimental results in this emerging field of Generative Genomics, including AI generated and *validated* CRISPR-Cas systems and transposons
Science Magazine
@ScienceMagazine
Nov 14, 2024
A new Science study presents “Evo”—a machine learning model capable of decoding and designing DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, from molecular to genome scale, with unparalleled accuracy. Evo’s ability to predict, generate, and engineer entire genomic sequences could change the
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Mar 14, 2024
🧬🧬🧬 Is learning from DNA a new grand challenge in biology? Check out the new blog on Evo from the ML team “director’s cut”: hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2024-03-1… And we always love demos, generate DNA w/ Evo and predict protein structure in 1 click (by Nitro Bio) evo.nitro.bio
hazyresearch.stanford.edu
Learning from DNA: a grand challenge in biology
Is DNA all you need?
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Sep 14, 2023
We gave a talk on HyenaDNA, a genomic foundation model, at OpenBioML ! YouTube link: youtu.be/haSkAC1fPX0?si… We walk through how the Hyena operator works, and the intuition behind the implicit long convolutions. Excited to hear people’s feedback :)
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Apr 17, 2024
Some guy gave a talk on Evo, maybe worth checking out youtube.com/watch?v=rKy6O9…
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Dec 10, 2024
I'm at #NeurIPS2024 in Vancouver all week, excited to chat everything AI for bio + sciences!
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Mar 7, 2024
I have to say, well done on the wrapper around Evo playground, it's beautiful. I can see more rapid iteration for sequence design happening this way, generation to protein folding in 1 click evo.nitro.bio
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Mar 20, 2024
That was fast, I think they’re the first external team to finetune Evo. Cool application on AAVs
Kenny Workman
@kenbwork
Mar 20, 2024
ML models like Evo + AlphaFold are emerging to engineer molecules. It is sometimes unclear how to use these tools to build drugs. We trace a realistic design, build and test loop of virus capsids on LatchBio.
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Sep 22, 2023
🎉🧬🎉🧬🎉 #NeurIPS2023 @MichaelPoli6 @marjanfaizi
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Dec 13, 2023
HyenaDNA poster went awesome! Honestly had sooooo much fun sharing the work with folks interested and hanging out with the coolest, brightest teammates I could ask for. So proud and happy to work with them, and definitely a highlight of my PhD.
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Feb 27, 2024
I 💛 working with Brian. Since when do you have a PI coding harder than you sometimes? 🚀🧬⚡️
Brian Hie
@BrianHie
Feb 27, 2024
In some new work (the first from the new lab!), we lay out a vision for a biological foundation model that unites DNA, RNA, and protein modalities and operates at molecular, systems, and genome levels of scale. Blog: arcinstitute.org/news/blog/evo Preprint: arcinstitute.org/manuscripts/Evo
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Eric Nguyen
@exnx
Nov 14, 2023
HyenaDNA is now integrated with the HuggingFace Transformer library! 🧬😍🧬😍🧬😍 You can load up a pretrained HyenaDNA model in a few lines of code 🚀 Protip: the HF HyenaDNA model class is the same as regular Hyena, so you can train it on natural language too 😉
Matthew Carrigan
@carrigmat
Nov 14, 2023
Big genomics news today at @huggingface: We're delighted to welcome HyenaDNA to the Hub! Models: huggingface.co/collections/Lo… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.15794 Thanks to @HazyResearch @exnx @MichaelPoli6 @marjanfaizi for the model, and for your work on the port! More info in 🧵
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