Current Research

Hi, I'm currently a doctoral researcher at the MathSys CDT of the University of Warwick. I'm also a part of the Sosso Group in the department of computational chemistry lead by Dr Gabriele Sosso

My main research interest at the moment lies in applying machine learning to computational chemistry. I'm currently working on computationally predicting pharmaceutical permeability through the blood brain barrier.

My email is h.jia.2 at warwick.ac.uk

Research Papers

H. Jia, G. Sosso. (In Review) A Transparent Machine Learning Model To Understand Drugs Permeability Through The Blood Brain Barrier

Poster Presentations

H. Jia, G. Sosso, Computational Molecular Science 2024. Predicting the Blood Brain Barrier Permeability of Druglike Molecules with Clique Descriptors

Teaching

I currently serve as a teaching assistant for first year students in joint mathematics degrees. I help teach MA138 Sets and Numbers along with MA142 Calculus 1. I am also a lab tutor for CS342 Machine Learning.

Previous Work

Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at MidJourney and Leap Motion. My work primarily was in the deployment of machine learning solutions for large scale training of machine learning models. Prior to this, my background was in CUDA programming for machine learning. In parallel with my time at Leap Motion, I also helped contribute to open source projects including PyTorch Lightning.

Education

2022 ~ Present: Doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick

• Programme: Mathematical Systems CDT
• Supervised by Professor Gabriele Sosso and Professor Phillip Stansfeld
• Funded by the EPSRC
• Research interest: Leveraging computation to predict the blood brain barrier permeability to drug-like molecules

2021 ~ 2022: Master of Science at the University of Warwick with Distinction

• Programme: Mathematical Systems CDT
• Individual Project: Predicting the Blood Brainer Barrier Permeability with Cliques
  • Supervised by Dr Gabriele Sosso
• Group Project: Machine-Learning-Guided Directed Evolution for Multi Objective Protein Engineering
  • Supervised by Professor Juergen Branke

2017 ~ 2020: Bachelor of Science at the University of Warwick with First Class Honours

• Programme: Mathematics and Statistics
• Individual Project: Optimising Traffic Congestion with Reinforcement Learning
  • Supervised by Dr Sigurd Assing