Minji Lee

Titles

PhD Student

Minji Lee is a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University, advised by Prof. Mohammed AlQuraishi. Her research focuses on generative modeling for proteins.


Education History

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia University (2024-Present)
B.S. in Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2021–2024


Publications

E. Adams*, L. Bai*, M. Lee, Y. Yu, M. AlQuraishi. “From Mechanistic Interpretability to Mechanistic Biology: Sparse Autoencoders on Protein Language Models.” ICML (Spotlight), 2025 

M. Lee*, L. F. Vecchietti*, H. Jung, H. J. Ro, M. Cha, H. M. Kim. “Robust optimization in protein fitness landscapes using reinforcement learning in latent space.” ICML (Spotlight), 2024. 

Y. Lin, M. Lee, Z. Zhang, M. AlQuraishi. “Out of Many, One: Designing and Scaffolding Proteins at the Scale of the Structural Universe with Genie 2.” Preprint, 2024.

M. Lee, K. Lee, J. Shin. “Fine-tuning protein language models by ranking protein fitness.” NeurIPS GenAI4Bio Workshop, 2023.