Ava Amini
Senior Researcher
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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.