youngsuko

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i am a third year molecular biophysics phd student working in the wei wang lab at ucsd.

my research focuses on applying deep learning for proteins. more specifically, protein interactions, protein language models, and antibody engineering.

before ucsd, i studied chemistry at pomona college with professor roberto garza-lopez.

happy to chat about research, life at ucsd, applying to grad school, and more. email me at y4ko@ucsd.edu ^^


/research


Miniaturizing, Modifying, and Magnifying Nature's Proteins with Raygun
Kapil Devkota, Daichi Shonai, Joey Mao, Young Su Ko*, Wei Wang, Scott Soderling, Rohit Singh. bioRxiv preprint, 2025. 10.1101/2024.08.13.607858

Benchmarking text-integrated protein language model embeddings and embedding fusion on diverse downstream tasks
Young Su Ko*, Jonathan Parkinson, Wei Wang. bioRxiv preprint, 2024. 10.1101/2024.08.24.609531

TUnA: an uncertainty-aware transformer model for sequence-based protein–protein interaction prediction
Young Su Ko*, Jonathan Parkinson, Cong Liu, Wei Wang. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024. 10.1093/bib/bbae359