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Name Tulga-Erdene Sodjargal
Label Undergraduate Researcher in ML for Molecules & Materials
Email 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2022.03 - 2023.06

    Daejeon, South Korea

    Undergraduate Research Intern
    Department of Chemistry, KAIST
    Developed novel chemical reactions via combinatorial methods (Prof. Yoonsu Park).

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

  • 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
  • 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

Projects

Languages

English
Proficient (TOEFL iBT: 116/120)
Russian
Bilingual
Mongolian
Native