Ava Amini
Principal Researcher
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In the news | Ragon Institute
Ava Amini and collaborators receive Bits to Bytes grant
The project represents a significant step forward in understanding immune responses at the tissue level. By generating and analyzing large datasets using artificial intelligence and machine learning, the team will develop tools to measure and predict how immune cells interact…
Research Focus: Week of March 24, 2025
In this issue, we examine a new conversation segmentation method that delivers more coherent and personalized agent conversation, and we review efforts to improve MLLMs’ understanding of geologic maps. Check out the latest research and other updates.
Awards | VentureBeat
Amini receives “Rising Star” award at VentureBeat’s 6th Annual Women in AI awards
VentureBeat announced the winners of the sixth annual Women in AI Awards yesterday at VB Transform. The "Rising Star" award honors a woman in the early stage of her AI career who has demonstrated exemplary leadership traits. Amini focuses on…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
This week, Microsoft introduced a general-purpose framework, EvoDiff, that the company claims can generate “high-fidelity,” “diverse” proteins given a protein sequence. Different from other protein-generating frameworks, EvoDiff doesn’t require any structural information about the target protein, cutting out what’s typically…
Abstracts: September 13, 2023
| Gretchen Huizinga, Ava Amini, and Kevin Kaichuang Yang
The new #MSRPodcast series “Abstracts” is your source for cutting-edge research in brief. In the first episode, join researchers Ava Amini and Kevin K. Yang to learn about their new paper on using evolutionary-scale protein data to improve protein design.