Ava Amini
Principal Researcher
About
Ava Amini is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA (opens in new tab). Her research focuses on developing new AI methods to understand and design biology, with the ultimate aim of realizing precision biomedicines that improve human health. She is a co-lead of Project Ex Vivo (opens in new tab), a collaborative effort between Microsoft and the Broad Institute, that is focused on defining, engineering, and targeting cell states in cancer.
In addition to research, Ava is passionate about AI education and outreach — she is a lead organizer and instructor for MIT Introduction to Deep Learning, (opens in new tab) an in-person and global course on the fundamentals of deep learning.
Ava completed her PhD in Biophysics at Harvard University (opens in new tab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was advised by Sangeeta Bhatia (opens in new tab) at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ava received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from MIT.