Zaid Yusuf

ML Research
Engineer

Scientific ML · Protein AI · AI Engineering

I work across the ML stack: mathematical foundations, model architecture, implementation, systems, and production—especially where scientific modeling, biological data, and reliable engineering meet.

01 / Selected work

Research meets implementation.

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Protein AI Active exploration

ProtDiffusion

A PyTorch implementation exploring diffusion-based protein structure prediction.

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Biological foundation models Open source

scGPT-mini

An implementation study of scGPT for single-cell transcriptomics.

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Agentic AI Open source

BioAgent

A biology-focused tool-calling agent fine-tuned with SFT/LoRA on open-source language models.

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AI Engineering Ongoing technical work

ML systems & inference

Implementation-led study of the systems choices behind useful, reliable LLM applications.

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02 / Technical writing

Notes from the work.

Writing is where I make the machinery explicit: geometry, models, systems, and the decisions hidden inside an implementation.

A working intuition for diffusion on SO(3)

Why rotations make a useful case study for respecting geometry in generative models.

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MHA, MQA, and GQA: the cache is part of the architecture

A compact comparison of attention variants through the lens of inference-time memory.

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All writing

03 / About

I care about understanding a model well enough to change it with intent.

I’m drawn to problems where assumptions matter: geometric representations, biological structure, inference trade-offs, and the engineering required to make ML systems useful outside a notebook.

More about my approach

04 / Contact

Open to thoughtful conversations and technically difficult work.

yusufteppei11@gmail.com ↗