Skills

Machine Learning & AI

Core toolkit for molecular generation and property prediction at Merck, spanning architectures from graph neural networks to diffusion models.

PyTorch PyTorch Geometric Graph Neural Networks Transformers Recurrent Neural Networks Diffusion Models Variational Autoencoders GFlowNets Reinforcement Learning Conformer Ensemble Models Curriculum Learning Scikit-learn Optuna Uncertainty Quantification

Drug Discovery & Molecular Design

Applied daily across structure-based and ligand-based design programs, from hit finding through lead optimization.

Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) Ligand-Based Drug Design (LBDD) De Novo Generation Lead Optimization Multi-Parameter Optimization (MPO) ADMET Prediction Synthesizability Screening ECFP Fingerprints Virtual Screening Ligand Docking RDKit Chemprop Schrödinger Suite AutoDock Vina

Computational Chemistry & Physics

Foundation from Ph.D. research in polymer simulations, membrane mechanics, and free-energy calculations.

GROMACS PLUMED Enhanced Sampling MD Well-Tempered Metadynamics Hamiltonian Replica Exchange Free-Energy Calculations ORCA (DFT) MDAnalysis Markov State Modeling Continuum Mechanics Differential Geometry

Programming & Computing

Languages used across production ML systems, HPC simulation codes, and data analysis pipelines.

Python C++ CUDA SQL Bash FORTRAN LaTeX OpenMP

DevOps & Infrastructure

Tools for managing reproducible workflows on HPC clusters and cloud environments.

Git / GitHub Actions Docker HPC / Slurm Ansible PBS CI/CD