Jonathan Xu

Jonathan Xu

I am a PhD student in Genomics & Computational Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. I recently graduated from Penn with a B.S. in Statistics & Data Science and M.S. in Computer Science.

I am most excited about using simulation to design molecules and understand their physical interactions. I hope to develop machine learning methods that make accurate simulations feasible over biologically meaningful timescales, with applications in protein engineering and drug discovery.

Research

2025
Li, S., Xu, J., [+10], Koga, S., Huang, Z.
arXiv
2025
2022
Liu, W., Alameh, M.-G., Yang, J. F., Xu, J. R., Lin, P. J. C., Tam, Y. K., Weissman, D., You, J.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Teaching

2025-2026
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2025
Head Teaching Assistant, Spring 2026

Thoughts