Allan dos Santos Costa

Hi there, I’m Allan dos Santos Costa, a PhD student under Prof. Joseph Jacobson at the Center for Bits and Atoms, Molecular Machines at the Media Lab, co-advised by Prof. Tess Smidt at the Atomic Architects group at the MIT RLE.

My research is focused on biomolecular modeling and engineering through machine learning. I am particularly excited about structural modeling, and physics-inspired, symmetry-based neural architectures. As intern I worked on protein language modeling and structure prediction (ESMFold) with Meta AI, on neural potentials with D. E. Shaw Research and on generative dynamics simulation with NVIDIA.

I earned my Master’s degree from Center for Bits and Atoms, Molecular Machines, where I focused on protein representation learning and folding. Prior to that, I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and Physics from MIT. During my undegraduate studies, I had the opportunity to gain practical engineering experience through internships at Kensho Technologies, NASA Ames Coded Structures Lab and Palantir.

I’m always up for a good chat with a good espresso. ☕