Maurizio Diaz Armenta

Engineer at Airbnb, currently working on Trust and Safety. Previously Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher @ 1910 Genetics where I worked on ML-driven small-molecule and protein design at scale.

Work:

• Life Sciences: Previously at International Chemical Analysis Inc, Miksovska Lab (FIU), and the Biomechatronics Lab (MIT)
• Computer Science: Previously at Twitch.tv, GoDaddy ML, Microsoft Research New England, and Airbnb.

Research:

• Computer Science: domain adaptation methods, robust validation, unsupervised learning, and graphical neural networks.
• Life Sciences: proteins, biophysics, molecular dynamics, optogenetics, surgical architectures, and immunogenicity.
• History: research on forced labour, industrialization, and the 20th-century college. Under Craig Steven Wilder and the MIT & Slavery project.
• My published peer reviewed work is on Google Scholar. The manuscripts are in the publications tab above.

Most recent interests (as of June 2020): neurobiology, proteins, statistical learning, reinforcement learning, cancer, domain adaptation, game theory, computational chemistry, and really old AI papers.