Pedram Bayat

I’m a student at the University of Pennsylvania studying Bioengineering and Systems Engineering.

I’m interested in using computation to better understand how biological systems interact and evolve. My research goal is to enhance the design and understanding of biological systems to tackle unanswered questions in human health. I’m broadly curious about generative protein design, CAR-T cell engineering, and perturbation modeling.

I’m currently an intern at Tahoe Therapeutics, where I am working on the ML team to develop and evaluate perturbation prediction models on large-scale single-cell datasets. I am also researching ML guided protein binder design at Penn Medicine’s Center for Cellular Immunotherapies in the Goodman Lab. Previously, I spent time at Arc Institute working on single cell RNA sequencing, Genentech working on assay development for novel CAR-Ts, and Stanford learning how to purify proteins.

I’m always open to chat. Feel free to reach me via email, LinkedIn, or X.