Antonia Panescu

@AF_Panescu

Computational Biology PhD @Yale MBiochem @UniofOxford

Joined April 2025

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Excited to share KnitNet at tomorrow's Eterna seminar!

Join us Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 3:30 pm ET (12:30 pm PT).

I'll discuss how we combine generative modeling with verifier-guided optimization to accurately design RNA sequences for complex structures, including pseudoknots.

Eterna @eternagame Oct 13

Join the Eterna community tomorrow, Oct. 14 at 12:30 pm PT to hear @AF_Panescu discuss her RNA inverse design method and HJ Lee introduce his 3D prediction puzzle for modeling RNA aptamers docking a ligand.

Details at: eternagame.org/news/16535855

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Antonia Panescu @AF_Panescu Jul 20

Presented this work at #ICML2026 @genbio_workshop !

We introduce an order-agnostic approach to RNA inverse design. The result is more diverse, higher-confidence designs with higher solve rates while requiring fewer samples than standard best-of-N methods.

Antonia Panescu @AF_Panescu Jul 5

Had a great time attending ChemAI NYC 2026, presenting #CatalystBusters

If you’re looking for a physics-based, deterministic benchmark for your ML-generated enzyme sequences, consider using this!

Antonia Panescu @AF_Panescu Jun 14

Had a great time contributing to this collaborative effort across biomedical domains!

A key question we asked was: can AI agents tell when the available data is sufficient to support a reliable conclusion? An important step toward trustworthy AI-driven scientific discovery 🤖🧬

Tianyu Liu @meSuper8 Jun 13

1/ 🤖Can agents solve problems in science? Most agent benchmarks test math/coding or reduce research to Q&A. Neither captures real research: multi-step workflows, messy data, tool use, knowing when a task is even feasible. So we built SciAgentArena: 200 tasks, 6 domains.

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Antonia Panescu @AF_Panescu Jun 8

A Lab with a View

Excited to spend my summer at the @BerkeleyLab in California, extending our previous work on Zatom-1!

Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2602.22251