Sup, I'm Samarth! I love building things.
I grew up in India, mostly across Aurangabad and Ahmedabad. Now, I'm doing my undergrad at UC Berkeley, where I study some blend of computer science, cognitive science, and molecular biology.
I’m working on some projects at the intersection of machine learning and biology advised by Sergey Ovchinnikov at MIT Biology, and Aaron Streets at UC Berkeley. I’m interested in developing high-throughput methods of collecting data for protein engineering, and in building models to understand the distribution of protein conformations, among other things!
Most recently, I worked at Prosper, where I wrote code to help make a faster tele-operated robot butler. Before that, I spent time at Popvax to design proteins which elicit specific antibodies and built software to track and analyze wet lab experiments.
During summers (and other free time) in high school, I prototyped developer tools at Replit and Deta, and helped make fun software for homeschools at ZipSchool.
I've worked on a bunch of side-projects, including Riff and Skrrt (there are a lot more, but they’re mostly dead), contributed to programming education for high-schoolers, and created explorable explanations. I used to spend copious amounts of time building quick hacks and stitching together APIs to make fun demos — I still enjoy doing that occasionally, but now spend most of my time on more ambitious, longer term projects.
I'd love to jam on ideas or just hang — please get in touch! I'm usually active on Twitter, where you can DM me. I'm also happy to get emails on sam@jajoo.fun.
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