Wengong Jin

Research interests

• Computational biology
• Machine learning

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography

Wengong Jin is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

In his research, Jin uses geometric and generative AI models to improve the costly, time-consuming process of drug discovery, with the goal of curing more diseases, more quickly. He pursued this goal as a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard before joining Khoury College in 2024, drawn by the college’s readiness to embrace novel and interdisciplinary research areas.

Jin has published his work in a number of leading AI and biology journals including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, Nature, Science, Cell, and PNAS. His work has also been covered by the Guardian, BBC News, CBS Boston, and the Financial Times, and been recognized with the BroadIgnite Award, Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize, and MIT EECS Outstanding Thesis Award. In addition to his teaching and research work at Khoury College, Jin is a visiting research scientist in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute.

In his free time, Jin likes to play basketball.

Labs and groups

• Applied Machine Learning Group

Recent publications