Tommi S. Jaakkola, Ph.D.
Thomas Siebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Stata Center, Bldg 32-G470
Cambridge, MA 02139

tommi at csail dot mit dot edu

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Research synopsis (more projects)

Our research advances how machines can learn, predict or control, and do so at scale in an efficient, principled, and interpretable manner. Our research in machine learning extends from foundational theory to modern applications, focusing especially on statistical inference and estimation tasks that lie at the heart of complex learning problems. We design new methods, theory and algorithms so as to automate the use and generation of semi-structured data such as molecules, natural language text, images, or strategies. Our algorithms solve multi-faceted inferential tasks (e.g., in a biomedical context), generate or optimize molecules / reactions towards effective therapeutics, and help model strategic, game theoretic interactions.

People (more people)

Julia Balla(c), Abhi Gupta, Cathy Cai(c), MinGyu Choi(c), Cameron Diao(c), Felix Faltings(c), Peter Holderrieth, Maurice Weiler*, Cai Zhou(c)

(* = postdoc, c = co-advised, v = visiting)

Recent PhD graduates: Jeet Mohapatra, Chenyu Wang (Google), Shangyuan Tong (Tesla), Bowen Jing (Princeton), Hannes Stärk (Boltz PBC)
Recent MSc graduates: Ron Shprints (DE Shaw)

Recent highlight(s)

  • We introduce an all-atom generative model -- BoltzGen -- for designing proteins and peptides across all modalities to bind a wide range of biomolecular targets. BoltzGen builds strong structural reasoning capabilities about target-binder interactions into its generative design process and is controlled by a flexible design specification language. We experimentally validate these capabilities in a total of eight diverse wetlab design campaigns. Model weights, code for data, inference and training are released under the MIT license.

    H. Stärk, F. Faltings, M. Choi, Y. Xie, E. Hur, T. O Donnell, A. Bushuiev, T. Ucar, S. Passaro, W. Mao, M. Reveiz, R. Bushuiev, T. Pluskal, Josef Sivic, Karsten Kreis, A. Vahdat, S. Ray, J. Goldstein, A. Savinov, J. Hambalek, A. Gupta, D. Taquiri-Diaz, Y. Zhang, A. K. Hatstat, A. Arada, N. H. Kim, E. Tackie-Yarboi, D. Boselli, L. Schnaider, C. C. Liu, G.-W. Li, D. Hnisz, D. M. Sabatini, W. F. DeGrado, J. Wohlwend, G. Corso, R. Barzilay and T. Jaakkola.
    BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design. Preprint.
    [bioRxiv],  [GitHub]

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