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General Information

Full Name Shreyas V
Languages English

Education

  • 2025
    MSc Chemistry
    Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)
  • 2025
    BE Computer Science
    Birla Institute of Technology And Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)

Experience

  • 2024-now
    Visiting Researcher Intern
    Yale University
    • Conducting research on molecule generation models using geometric deep learning with Prof. Smita Krishnaswamy
    • Developing novel algorithms to enhance molecular design efficiency
  • 2024-now
    Research Intern
    Harvard Medical School
    • Investigating the neural mechanisms of language processing using AI models under Prof Gabriel Kreiman
    • Applying advanced machine learning techniques to analyze neural data, contributing to a deeper understanding of language cognition
  • 2023-now
    Research Fellow
    Deep Forest Sciences
    • Developed tools for AI-aided retrosynthesis, molecule & materials discovery
    • Built infrastructure to train Molecular LLMs
    • Semifinalist at the Standard Industries Chemical Innovation Challenge, awarded prize money of $10,000
    • Migrated models in the open-source drug discovery toolkit DeepChem from TensorFlow to PyTorch, increasing user base by 92%
  • Summer 2024
    Product Engineering Intern
    Sprinklr
    • Developed an ASR transcription evaluation pipeline using NLP techniques
    • Created a custom scoring metric for evaluating transcripts in production, enhancing accuracy
    • Improved productivity of product managers by 2x through streamlined evaluation processes
  • 2022-now
    Student Researcher
    APPCAIR, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
    • Drug Discovery
      • Examining the usage of Large Language Models to generate and synthesize novel molecules for drug discovery
    • Natural Language Processing
      • Surveyed the usage of Large Language Models to generate questions and answers
    • Bioinformatics
      • Surveyed the usage of BERT and Transformer based architectures to predict Protein Residue binding locations
      • Devised deep learning methods to Predict Protein Residue binding
  • 2021-2023
    Research Intern
    Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
    • Published a Paper Titled "Speech to Equation Conversion using a PoE Tagger"
    • Built a Novel architecture to deal with variability in the way math equations are spoken
  • Jun 22 - Aug 22
    Data Science Intern
    Skan.ai
    • Explored and implemented Data anonymization techniques using Machine Learning
    • Developed AI/ML pipeline for real time data anonymization for process mining resulting in 30% performance improvement
  • Feb 22 — May 22
    Research Intern
    Pixis.ai
    • Optimised Algorithmic Trading App to identify arbitrage opportunities to do a round trip trading with different currencies from 30min to 2sec

Open Source Projects

  • 2023-now
    Deepchem
    • Democratizing Deep-Learning for Drug Discovery, Quantum Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology

Publications

  • 2024
    Predicting ATP binding sites in protein sequences using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
    • Published in 3rd Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE)
  • 2022
    Speech to Equation Conversion using a PoE Tagger
    • Published in IEEE 7th International conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), 2022

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • 3rd prize in ACM Goa Chapter's event PitchIt!

Academic Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
    • Large Language Models
    • Text Generation
    • Applications of NLP in Science
  • Drug Discovery
    • Small Molecule Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Machine Learning
    • Molecule Generation
    • Molecular Property Prediction
    • Molecular Representation Learning

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Singing, Formula 1, etc.