I am a PhD student in the Bender group, in the Centre for Molecular Informatics. My research interest include the use of 3D structure data for machine (deep) learning applications in drug discovery.
In my first project, I used atomistic neural networks to bias conformer ensemble towards bioactive-like conformations.
In my current project, I will benchmark existing 3D deep molecular generation methods, both unconditioned generation (diverse conformations for diverse molecules) and conditioned generation (e.g. pocket conditioning to generate active molecule directly in target-bound poses).
I also worked on deep conformation generation in my first year, and worked on a side project exploring the use of the Smooth Overlap of Atomic Positions (SOAP) descriptor for protein-ligand prediction.