Raised along the shimmering lakeshores of Madison, Wisconsin, Ananya is an undergraduate studying Applied Mathematics and Biochemistry alongside a certificate in Global Health. An international gold medalist in pathophysiology, she has long been fascinated by how diseases work at the molecular level, and at Yale she’s complemented that interest with machine-learning to broaden her impact. At the Spiegel lab she designs algorithmic pipelines with computational protein-ligand docking to enable high-throughput screening for small molecule drug candidates. She also works in the Krishnaswamy lab at Yale's Wu Tsai institute to use geometric deep learning for biological modeling and simulation. She has completed AI scientist roles at the National Institutes of Health, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM Research, and contributed to open source projects like Interprot. 

 

Beyond the bench, Ananya is an accomplished musician—ten years of operatic voice training and eleven years on the viola have led her to perform with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, compete in concerto competitions, and tour internationally. Her experience on the stage fuels her leadership of various campus organizations related to AI, venture capital, and biotech. She was selected for Yale's competitive Hillhouse Fellowship to cultivate highly-technical founders and investors, and this past semester she worked with members of the lab to commercialize an ML based technology through a National Science Foundation program. Looking ahead, she plans to pursue a PhD in ML or Computational Biology—and one day launch her own startup.