Ellen Zhong, Ph.D.

Zhong is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her group’s research spans methodological research in AI and computer vision, as well as close collaboration with experimentalists in molecular and structural biology. She previously worked on the AlphaFold team at Google DeepMind and on molecular dynamics for drug discovery at D. E. Shaw Research. Her work has been recognized with the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship and a Major Society Award from the Microscopy Society of America. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT in 2022.