Henry Jia

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

Research Papers

H. Jia, G. Sosso. In progress, Fast, lightweight BBB permeability predictions for molecular design

H. Jia, G. Sosso. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 64 (23), 8718-8728, A Transparent Machine Learning Model To Understand Drugs Permeability Through The Blood Brain Barrier

H. Jia. arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07893, Investigation into the effectiveness of long short term memory networks for stock price prediction

Poster Presentations

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

Teaching

I served as a teaching assistant in 2024 for first year students in joint mathematics degrees. I helped teach MA138 Sets and Numbers, MA142 Calculus 1, MA143 Calculus 2 and MA148 Vectors and Matrices. I was 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 addition to C/C++ programming. In parallel with my time at Leap Motion, I also helped contribute to open source projects including PyTorch Lightning.

Other Experience

Thanks to my hobbies and interests in the field of engineering both with hardware and embedded systems, I've developed some familiarity with both. I'm familiar with the Espressif Internet of Things Framework for ESP based systems. I'm also reasonably well versed in additive manufacturing and CAD for additive manufacturing. I've also developed some familiarity with manual machining.

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