Research Scientist @NVIDIA | PhD @Mila_Quebec, BS @FudanUniversity | Deep Generative Learning | Proteins and Molecules. Views are my own.

Santa Clara, California, USA
Joined September 2021
Our latest progress on binder design is here, now backed by massive-scale wet-lab validation! 🧬 Proud to contribute to this amazing team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
📢📢 Proteina-Complexa 📢📢 Atomistic Binder Design with Generative Pretraining and Test-Time Compute + Experimental Validation at Scale ⭐️ Project page (research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…) for: 📜 Method paper (ICLR 2026 Oral) 🧬 Wet lab paper 🛠️ Code & models 📁 Data 🧵 Thread (1/n)
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📢 RFD4-Proteina talks 📢 Great seeing @kpowgerade introduce RFD4-Proteina at @nvidia GTC Berlin, and fun presenting it with @nscorley at the GTC Biopharma summit! Next up: our own little Eurotour - with guest appearances from David himself in the UK. Come by if you’re around! 🧵 1/3
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🚀 Today at GTC Berlin we introduced RFD4-Proteina! A close one-year collaboration between GenAIR and David Baker's group at @UWproteindesign !
🧬 Design proteins faster and send fewer, better candidates to the lab. Introducing RFD4-Proteina, a new NVIDIA BioNeMo open model co-developed with @UWproteindesign. ▫️Fast: 13× faster generation than RFdiffusion3 at 200 residues ▫️ Smart: state-of-the-art across 12+ protein design tasks ▫️ Programmable: set your design inputs and use test-time compute on harder problems Start with our binder-design tutorial nvda.ws/3VK9Uvr
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Kieran is a beast 🔥 Go check out RFD4-Proteina!
Avengers assemble: 1 year BakerLab + NVIDIA GenAIR = 🔥 rfd4-proteina.org Presenting RFD4-Proteina, our latest protein design model, significantly better and faster than everything we compared against, both in silico and in the lab! 1/30
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Please help spread the word! We’re hiring Research Scientists and Research Interns at NVIDIA Research to work on some of the most exciting problems in generative AI: 🌎 World Models & Video Diffusion 🧠 Diffusion Language Models 🧬 Biomolecule Design If your research aligns with any of these areas, please apply directly through the links below. Open positions + application links: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…
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📢📢 Join us as a Research Scientist or Research Intern! 🛠️ Fundamental gen AI & practical applications 🧬 Text diffusion & protein flows 🌎 World models & molecule models ...and, although being slightly biased, with an amazing team 😃 For details, see @ArashVahdat 's message.
Please help spread the word! We’re hiring Research Scientists and Research Interns at NVIDIA Research to work on some of the most exciting problems in generative AI: 🌎 World Models & Video Diffusion 🧠 Diffusion Language Models 🧬 Biomolecule Design If your research aligns with any of these areas, please apply directly through the links below. Open positions + application links: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…
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We're hiring at NVIDIA, interns (2027) and full time. If you're interested in video and world models, discrete diffusion LLMs, or structural biology, apply using the links below!! 🔥
Please help spread the word! We’re hiring Research Scientists and Research Interns at NVIDIA Research to work on some of the most exciting problems in generative AI: 🌎 World Models & Video Diffusion 🧠 Diffusion Language Models 🧬 Biomolecule Design If your research aligns with any of these areas, please apply directly through the links below. Open positions + application links: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…
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Our team is hiring! Come and work with us on some exciting GenAI directions🔥
Please help spread the word! We’re hiring Research Scientists and Research Interns at NVIDIA Research to work on some of the most exciting problems in generative AI: 🌎 World Models & Video Diffusion 🧠 Diffusion Language Models 🧬 Biomolecule Design If your research aligns with any of these areas, please apply directly through the links below. Open positions + application links: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…
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💫 Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models Presenting Sigma, the first large-scale (3B/8B) continuous diffusion LM (dLM) trained with likelihood. 📈 Comparable with discrete dLMs and AR on math and coding 🎛️ Enables meaningful study of inference-time interventions Jointly led with Wei Guo (@WeiGuo01), Jean-Marie Lemercier (@jm_lemercier), Simon Welker (@_cobalamin) Team: @YongganFu @mmkamani7 Sajad Norouzi @julberner @tomasgeffner @karsten_kreis @YongxinChen1 @MoleiTaoMath @jwthickstun @PavloMolchanov Ante Jukic @ArashVahdat @MardaniMorteza
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Our wet-lab validation campaign for Proteina-Complexa is now on bioRxiv! It includes some new exciting experimental results, from large protein structures (fully codesigned!) to functional carbohydrate binders. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… Thread with some of the additions 🧵1/n
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Love seeing ideas travel this fast. 🚀 We haven’t released the code or even submitted the paper yet, but our Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD) has already been independently implemented and used to accelerate MiniMax-H3. ⚡ More on FastGen-PDD: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen…
Another cool stuff from Alibaba! MiniMax-H3 Acc LoRAs. Parallel Decoding Distillation for efficient video gen in a few steps. FL2VA + Ref2VA huggingface.co/alibaba-pai/M…
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Great to see our Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD) already being applied to MiniMax-H3🚀 Alibaba scaled it up just a month after our paper release (before our code even dropped) - guess that proves how simple it is to implement! Learn more about PDD: xitter.cf/julberner/status/20825…
Another cool stuff from Alibaba! MiniMax-H3 Acc LoRAs. Parallel Decoding Distillation for efficient video gen in a few steps. FL2VA + Ref2VA huggingface.co/alibaba-pai/M…
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🧬 Agents for protein design are coming. Great to see Proteina-Complexa in the mix as one of the seven designated binder generators 🔥! Building good open tools and building agents that can use them well turn out to be complementary problems.
Many drugs work by binding to a specific target in the body and blocking or changing what it does. An important first step in the drug development process is designing a molecule that can bind tightly to its target. Traditionally, that's meant weeks or months of expert work per target, sifting through a large number of candidates to identify the few that work. We wanted to test if Claude could successfully design novel protein binders from scratch (also called de novo design). With a protein design prompt written by a human expert, Claude autonomously designed protein binders against 14 out of 15 targets. We then worked with Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience, who independently built and tested the proteins Claude designed.
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Replying to @muni_bio
@muni_bio now gives agents access to the wet-lab. Using @NVIDIAHealth's Proteina-Complexa + @adaptyvbio validation, muni found 3 sub-nanomolar binders, all of which were better than our hackathon winners. Even if assays take days or weeks, the results automatically feed back into the agent, allowing you to orchestrate autonomous scientific research in parallel.
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Very exciting to see how Proteina-Complexa in the hands of muni's agentic autoresearch pipeline produces sub-nanomolar binders for TREM2, scoring at the top of the leaderboard. More about NVIDIA's Proteina-Complexa here: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen….
Replying to @muni_bio
@muni_bio now gives agents access to the wet-lab. Using @NVIDIAHealth's Proteina-Complexa + @adaptyvbio validation, muni found 3 sub-nanomolar binders, all of which were better than our hackathon winners. Even if assays take days or weeks, the results automatically feed back into the agent, allowing you to orchestrate autonomous scientific research in parallel.
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The closed-loop research flywheel is here. 🚀 @muni_bio's autoresearch agent combined NVIDIA’s Proteina-Complexa model with @adaptyvbio's automated wet lab to generate 3 sub-nanomolar TREM2 binder! The autoresearch agent outperformed previous human & agent hackathon leaderboards!
Using NVIDIA Proteina-Complexa, @muni_bio's autoresearch agent explored nearly 14,000 protein designs. @adaptyvbio validated nine TREM2 binders, three with sub-nanomolar affinity. The results show how agents can connect computational design with wet-lab feedback to improve the next round of discovery. 📘muni.bio/research/closing-th…
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PDD is a trajectory-based distillation approach and does not require any JVP, finite differences, fake score, or adversarial loss. For a method summary, see: xitter.cf/shaulneta/status/20824…
1/ New paper: Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD)!🚀 To accelerate diffusion/flow models, trajectory distillation usually merges consecutive ODE steps into 1 larger step. PDD changes this by predicting MULTIPLE ODE steps in 1 network eval.🧵 w/ @julberner @ArashVahdat Chao Liu
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1/ New paper: Parallel Decoding Distillation (PDD)!🚀 To accelerate diffusion/flow models, trajectory distillation usually merges consecutive ODE steps into 1 larger step. PDD changes this by predicting MULTIPLE ODE steps in 1 network eval.🧵 w/ @julberner @ArashVahdat Chao Liu
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It’s getting hard to keep track of all the new open-source cofolding models coming out. To help everyone stay up to date, I'm excited to share cofoldarena.ai, a PDB-synced leaderboard of open models, updated weekly. All predictions are available to view & download! (1/4)
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⚡ Video diffusion is slow. PDD changes that. 🚀 Introducing Parallel Decoding Distillation, our latest work on accelerating video diffusion models. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26004 Page: research.nvidia.com/labs/gen… By @shaulneta, @julberner, and Chao Liu. Below PDD on LTX-2.3 🔊
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