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2026-05-20 Life

Nominated for Life Science Company of the Year

The first major project I led after my PhD helped get Intellegens shortlisted at the 2026 Cambridge Independent Science & Technology Awards.

2026-04-22 Paper

Front cover in Science Advances: H1 as a liquid-like chromatin glue

New post breaking down our methods and key novelty from the Science Advances front-cover paper.

2026-03-06 Blog

New article: Image Analysis + ML Pipelines for Biology

A practical walkthrough of building robust biological image analysis pipelines.

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Nominated for Life Science Company of the Year

May 20, 2026 Life

The first major project I led since my PhD got Intellegens nominated for Life Science Company of the Year at...

Front cover in Science Advances: linker histone H1 as a liquid-like glue for chromatin

April 22, 2026 Science

I am very happy to share that our new paper is out in Science Advances and featured on the front...

Image analysis in ML pipelines for biology: a maths-and-plots guide

February 15, 2026 Science

Biological image analysis is where measurement meets models. A microscope image is not “just pixels”: it’s a noisy sampling of...

Random Forests vs Gaussian Processes: A Practical Maths-First Comparison

January 27, 2026 Science

Random Forests and Gaussian Processes (GPs) are both powerful non‑parametric models (models that don’t fix a single, limited functional form...

H(r, p) = K(p) + U(r)
p(H) = e^(-βH) / Z
F = -∇U

Understanding Molecular Dynamics Simulations

January 16, 2026 Science

Molecular dynamics simulations are powerful computational tools for understanding the dynamic behavior of particles over time. This post explores the...

Understanding Oligonucleotide Impurities Across Nucleotide Modifications

November 02, 2025 Science

Exploring the most common chemical impurities in oligonucleotide synthesis across different nucleotide modification families, with interactive visualizations showing chemical structures...