Kevin Kaichuang Yang

Kevin Yang is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA (opens in new tab) who works on problems at the intersection of machine learning and biology. He did his PhD at Caltech with Frances Arnold on applying machine learning to protein engineering. Before joining MSR, he was a machine learning scientist at Generate Biomedicines (opens in new tab), where he used machine learning to optimize proteins. Before graduate school, Kevin taught math and physics for three years at a high school in Inglewood, California through Teach for America.