Avi Swartz

Avi Swartz’s experience is primarily in computational techniques and structural biology: his undergraduate degree was in computer science at Harvard University, and while there he performed term time research in developing machine learning architecture to disentangle protein evolution and structural information from metagenomic multiple sequence alignments.

Avi is now a third year graduate student in Molecular and Cell Biology, working under David Baker in the Institute of Protein Design at the University of Washington. In his Ph.D., Avi aims to continue developing his computational skills while also learning the experimental biochemistry as well as the physics and chemistry necessary to test his computational designs. After earning his Ph.D., Avi plans to continue in the academic track with a focus on using these computational protein design skills on meaningful biological problems.

October 2023