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I am based between the new and the old Cambridge, in Massachussetts and the UK!  

vidrl [at] mit.edu 

vr308 [at] cam.ac.uk

vrameshl [at] broadinstitute.org

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I am a Schmidt postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. I work with Prof. Caroline Uhler at MIT.

My research interests are broadly in probabilistic machine learning methodologies like Gaussian processes and kernel design. I actively work in scientific applications of machine learning to problems in contemporary sciences like computational biology, drug-discovery and astronomy. I currently work on generative models for small molecules and the evaluation of foundational models for representation learning pipelines in molecular machine learning and single-cell genomics.

I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2024. I was based at the Cavendish Laboratory (Physics) and the Computational & Biological Learning Lab at the Dept. of Engineering. During my time in Cambridge I was a Turing Scholar and a member of Christ’s College. I was awarded a G-Research PhD prize for my thesis and a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
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I was supervised by Prof. Carl Rasmussen and Prof. Neil Lawrence at Cambridge. I also hold a MPhil in Scientific Computing from the University of Cambridge (Distinction), an MSc in Applicable Mathematics from the LSE (Distinction). I did my undergraduation in Mathematics (major) and Economics as an external student of the Univeristy of London (LSE).​​

Core Interests

Industry 

Earlier in my career, I worked in algorithmic trading, developing models for global FX markets at Credit Suisse and pan-European equities at Citadel LLC between 2011 and 2015 in London. 

Current: I frequently consult as an adjunct scientist with biotechnology start-ups and hedge funds on the research and development of generative machine learning methodologies to problems in biology, medicine, and quantitative finance.

 

  • Latent Variable Models 

  • Gaussian Processes 

  • Kernel Methods 

  • Hierarchical Bayesian Models 

  • Manifold Learning 

  • Geometric Interpretations

  • Foundation Models for Science 

For a full list of my publications please see my Google Scholar or request my CV.

If  you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything  that's in it - From the poem ''IF'' Rudyard Kipling

© 2024 by Vidhi Lalchand

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