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