Overview
Work History
Education
Research Interests
Academic Research Experience
Selected Publications
Competitions
Affiliations
Timeline
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Euxhen Hasanaj

Pittsburgh,PA

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Sanofi
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Developed optimal transport algorithms for disease subtype identification from clinical data, applied to psoriasis, COVID-19, and Crohn's disease.
  • Published findings at a major conference (ISMB 2024).

Machine Learning Intern

Genesis Therapeutics
05.2022 - 08.2022
  • Researched and trained generative language models for de novo drug design, achieving state-of-the-art performance on internal benchmarks.
  • Focused on optimizing the novelty and diversity of generated molecules using SMILES strings.

Machine Learning Engineer

Ritech Solutions
01.2021 - 09.2021
  • Developed novel computer vision models for monocular depth estimation and image classification.

Machine Learning Engineer

Centroida
11.2017 - 08.2018
  • Investigated and developed deep learning methods for real-time face detection and tracking.

Education

Ph.D. - Machine Learning

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
09.2024

Master of Science - Machine Learning

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
12.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science, Mathematics

American University in Bulgaria
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
05.2019

Research Interests

Drug Discovery, Graph Learning, Multimodal Learning, LLMs, Computational Genomics, Computer Vision, Generative Models

Academic Research Experience

Carnegie Mellon University

  • Developed biomarker discovery methods tailored to various learning paradigms, focusing on human aging and cellular senescence.
  • Used a positive-unlabeled learning approach to detect rare aging cell populations that led to a list of genes potentially enriched in aged (senescent) cells.
  • Developed a transformer-based neural network for temporal graph structure learning. The method provided insights into the evolution of gene networks with advancing age.

Selected Publications

  • Integrating patients in time series clinical transcriptomics data. Hasanaj et al., Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (2024)
  • Multiset multicover methods for discriminative marker selection. Hasanaj et al., Cell Reports Methods (2022)
  • Interactive single-cell data analysis using Cellar. Hasanaj et al., Nature Communications (2022)

Competitions

  • 4th place, NeurIPS AutoML Decathlon Competition
  • Silver Medal, International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC)
  • Bronze Medal (team), ACM, Southeastern Europe Regional Programming Contest
  • 2nd Place (team), National Programming Contest, Bulgaria
  • Honorable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)

Affiliations

  • NIH Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) Consortium
  • NIH Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) Consortium

Timeline

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Sanofi
05.2023 - 08.2023

Machine Learning Intern

Genesis Therapeutics
05.2022 - 08.2022

Machine Learning Engineer

Ritech Solutions
01.2021 - 09.2021

Machine Learning Engineer

Centroida
11.2017 - 08.2018

Ph.D. - Machine Learning

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science - Machine Learning

Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science, Mathematics

American University in Bulgaria
Euxhen Hasanaj