Jacob Gerlach Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Co-authored 5 peer-reviewed articles on machine learning for drug discovery
• Designed PostgreSQL schema. Executed ETL processes to clean and transform 278 million data points from ChEMBL, PubChem, and BindingDB to a universal format
• Created web-apps with Flask, Vue.js, and Node.js for cleaning/visualizing data and ML model prediction
• Dockerized and deployed web-apps to a Linux server for daily use by a team of 9 chemists
• Developed an external web-app using Vue.js and implemented a Flask API to grant customers access to generative ML models. Validated API endpoints with Postman
• Wrote and tested Python libraries for data transformation, chemical statistics, modeling, and data visualization

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Built and trained a multi-task neural network on protein degradation data for 8 end-points, leading to a.11 increase in mean F1 and 13% increase in mean accuracy over previous methods
• Tuned single-task neural network and classical ML models, optimized using hyperparameter grid-search
• Initiated generative LSTM to generate linker compounds from tokenized target-ligand and E3-ligand inputs
• Generated “vocabulary” from 5.4 million molecules extracted from ChEMBL Database

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Managed a team of 34 students in the design and production of an automated prosthetic leg for the Cybathlon competition at ETH Zurich
• Led recruitment and academic outreach, secured $16,000 in funding, and acquired 501(c)(3) non-profit status
• Built CNN and RNN ML models to predict knee angle from time-series IMU data
• Applied computer vision to gain environmental awareness and capture user intentions

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 4.00 Gpa

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 4.00 Gpa

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering (Joint Program), 4.00 Gpa