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Amy Wang
Hi! I am a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, where I am coadvised by Alex Dunn and Bill Weis. I'm fascinated by the relationship between protein structure and function, and am interested in problems at the intersection between biophysics, structural biology and machine learning.
For my PhD thesis, I study mechanosensitive cell adhesion proteins using biophysical and computational approaches, including single molecule force spectroscopy (optical tweezers) and physics-based simulations. Before I joined the Weis and Dunn labs, I rotated with Ron Dror to study protein electrostatic binding interactions with MD simulations. This past summer 2022, I was very fortunate to intern with Microsoft Research's BioML Team with Kevin Yang, Ava Amini, and Alex Lu to study how biophysical priors could improve ML models for protein property prediction.
I received my bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Polymers & Soft Matter at MIT. I worked in Brad Olsen's lab, where I studied the physics governing protein-block copolymer self-assembly. I also worked in the Langer and Anderson labs, where I characterized protein-polymer interactions for drug delivery applications.
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