Mohammed AlQuraishi, Ph.D.

AlQuraishi is an assistant professor in the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University and a member of Columbia’s Program for Mathematical Genomics, where he works at the intersection of machine learning, biophysics and systems biology. AlQuraishi earned an MS in statistics and a Ph.D. in genetics from Stanford University. He subsequently joined the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School as a departmental fellow and a fellow in systems pharmacology, where he developed the first end-to-end differentiable model for learning protein structure from data. Prior to starting his academic career, AlQuraishi spent three years founding two startups in the mobile computing space.