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| Name | Tulga-Erdene Sodjargal |
| Label | Undergraduate Researcher in ML for Molecules & Materials |
| tulgaerdene.sodjargal@gmail.com | |
| Summary | KAIST B.S. student (Bioengineering and Chemistry) interested (broadly) in machine learning for accelerating scientific computing. Specific interest and experience in long-range corrections to ML potentials, statistical methods for molecular simulations, and scientific software development. |
Work
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2024.09 - Present Lausanne, Switzerland
Undergraduate Research Intern
Institute of Materials, EPFL (Prof. Michele Ceriotti)
Advanced atomistic ML models integrating long-range interactions; contributed to open-source educational code; improved PyTorch-based tools and CI/CD practices; presented a poster at DPG 2025; contributed to 2 preprints.
- Tools: PyTorch, ASE, LAMMPS, ipywidgets, Git, Bash
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2024.06 - 2024.08 Daejeon, South Korea
Research Intern (CUop [Company-University Cooperation] Program)
SpiderCore Inc.
Implemented graph neural networks for gene therapy design; developed chemically inspired self-supervised task achieving state-of-the-art performance.
- Tools: TensorFlow, RDKit
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2024.02 - Present Remote
Research Intern
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Comparative analysis of cellular membranes for joint drug design projects; refactored and optimized analysis methods (>30× speedup) enabling structural insights; co-authored a manuscript in preparation.
- Tools: MDAnalysis, scikit-learn
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2023.06 - 2023.11 Daejeon, South Korea
Undergraduate Research Intern
Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST
Designed potentially therapeutic antibody variants (Prof. Byung-Ha Oh)
- Tools: RFDiffusion, AlphaFold2, ProteinMPNN, Bash
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2022.03 - 2023.06 Daejeon, South Korea
Undergraduate Research Intern
Department of Chemistry, KAIST
Developed novel chemical reactions via combinatorial methods (Prof. Yoonsu Park).
Publications
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| MATLAB | |
| Bash |
| ML & Data Science | |
| PyTorch | |
| TensorFlow | |
| scikit-learn | |
| pandas |
| Computational Modeling | |
| RFDiffusion | |
| ProteinMPNN | |
| AlphaFold | |
| MDAnalysis | |
| AutoDock Vina | |
| NAMD |
| Software Engineering | |
| Git | |
| CI/CD | |
| pytest |
| Wet-Lab Techniques | |
| Air-sensitive reactions | |
| flash chromatography | |
| 1H/13C NMR (1D, 2D) |
Education
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2024.09 - 2025.06 Lausanne, Switzerland
Exchange
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Exchange Program
- Dynamical Systems in Biology
- Methods in Drug Development (graduate)
- Structural Analysis
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2021.08 - Present Daejeon, South Korea
B.S.
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Bio and Brain Engineering; double major in Chemistry
- Big Data and Machine Learning in Biotechnology
- Bio-Data Engineering
- Bio-Information Processing
- Bio-Data Structures
- Statistical ML
- Statistical Methods with Computing
- Computational Chemistry
- AI Chemistry
- ML for Molecules and Materials (graduate)
Awards
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Silver Award (5th place) — 3rd POSTECH–UNIST–KAIST Data Science Competition
Developed forecasting models with cost-aware optimization to predict demand for electronic parts; placed 5th among 20+ teams.
Projects
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Predicting Demand for Electronic Parts
Forecasting with cost-aware optimization to predict demand for electronic parts; 5th place (Silver Award) in competition.
- Nixtla
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Analyzing Workplace Discrimination in Korea
Statistical analysis to uncover national trends in workplace discrimination; EDA, hypothesis testing, and clustering.
- scikit-learn
- pandas
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Biomedical Information Systems for Future Healthcare
Designed biomedical and pharmacokinetics database integrating genomics and PK datasets; CLI for provider use cases.
- PostgreSQL
- psycopg2
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Housing Price Prediction
Built predictive models for housing prices; EDA, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning; ranked 7/60 in class.
- scikit-learn
- pandas
- Optuna
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Prediction of pKBHX on a Small Dataset
GCNN to predict hydrogen bond basicity (pKBHX) on ~350 molecules; preprocessing, regularization, hyperparameter tuning; ranked 4/13 (1st among undergrads).
- PyTorch
- RDKit
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SNP Analysis for COVID‑19 Delta Variant Surge
Heuristic global sequence alignment in pure Python to detect SNPs; analyzed SNP patterns associated with the Delta surge in England; literature review for biological roles.
- Python
Languages
| English | |
| Proficient (TOEFL iBT: 116/120) |
| Russian | |
| Bilingual |
| Mongolian | |
| Native |