Vladislav Cherdantsev Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Undergraduate Researcher supervised by Wengong Jin:
• Developed and trained an SE(3) denoising score-matching model for unsupervised binding energy prediction using the DiffDock codebase.
• Designed and trained a graph neural network to predict small molecule-protein binding using molecular SMILES and protein sequences as inputs. Led decisions on data featurization and implemented the model codebase.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Undergraduate Researcher in the Coley group:
• Developed an automated pipeline (shell and Python scripts) to set up relative binding free energy calculations in GROMACS for an antitubercular drug.
• Implemented an efficient lookup algorithm that uses locality-sensitive hashes to improve molecular similarity search. Integrated the algorithm as an API endpoint using Docker and MongoDB.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Worked in various research groups on the following projects:- Prediction of Site Selectivity in Electrochemical Oxidation Reactions Using Machine Learning;- Synthesis and characterization of mucin-mimetic glycoproteins;- Synthesis and characterization of new MnMnBTT (MOF) derivatives;

Kazakhstan

– Mentored the national team of 4 high school students in chemistry, resulting in 1 gold and 2 silver medals at the 2022 International Chemistry Olympiad.– Developed and assessed theoretical and experimental problems for approximately 150 students in the national chemistry olympiad, including writing and grading exam questions.

Kazakhstan

– Contributed to the development of an online platform and forum dedicated to chemistry. Helped organize 6 online science olympiads.– Managed a team of 8 writers and personally authored 8 and edited 37 scientific and educational blog articles as part of a project sponsored by Chevron.