Lood van Niekerk

Researcher, Ginkgo Bioworks
Joined
September 2022

Names

Lood van Niekerk (Preferred)
, 
Lood Van Niekerk

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, 
****@ginkgobioworks.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
Ginkgo Bioworks (ginkgobioworks.com)
2024 – Present
Researcher
Harvard University (harvard.edu)
2022 – 2024
MS student
University of Oxford (ox.ac.uk)
2020 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker
Alyssa Kramer Morrow
2024 – Present
Coauthor
Ruben Weitzman
2023 – Present
Coauthor
Debora Marks
2021 – 2023
Coauthor
Pascal Notin
2020 – 2023
Coauthor
Yarin Gal
2020 – 2023

Expertise

diffusion models
2022 – Present
biology
, 
computational biology
, 
genetics
, 
genomics
2020 – Present
deep learning
, 
proteomics
, 
protein language models
, 
language models
2020 – Present
graph neural networks
2020 – 2022
forecasting
, 
time series
, 
RNNs
2018 – 2018

Publications

Co-Authors