I was very happy to see that AI conferences realized the world is bigger than the US, and what makes me happy now is how many people discovered how wonderful Singapore is :)

📣 Our spicy ICML 2025 position paper: “Graph Learning Will Lose Relevance Due To Poor Benchmarks”. Graph learning is less trendy in the ML world than it was in 2020-2022. We believe the problem is in poor benchmarks that hold the field back - and suggest ways to fix it! 🧵1/10

🏆 We would once again like to thank our sponsors, who made it possible for us to provide you with lunch, and some of you with travel and registration grants and best paper awards! Find the list of the awarded papers on our website and in the comments below 🧵

Cannot agree more. Though-provoking. Recently, we showed the implementation of GNNs on genome assembly (huge graphs). genome.cshlp.org/content/35/4/8… Happy to provide benchmark data. I believe GNNs is the way to reconstruct cancer genomes.

Equivariance is dead - long live equivariance? Scaling pure Transformers is the future of molecular generative models? I think its a lot more nuanced -- I tried to give some perspectives in my spotlight talk at #ICLR2025 AI4Mat Workshop last week

How well do single-cell foundation models perform w/o finetuning? Our work Genome Biology shows that in zero-shot settings, scGPT and Geneformer often underperform traditional methods, raising questions about their utility for biological discovery. 📰 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

📢 Introducing Biomni - the first general-purpose biomedical AI agent. Biomni is built on the first unified environment for biomedical agent with 150 tools, 59 databases, and 106 software packages and a generalist agent design with retrieval, planning, and code as action. This

Happy to present the first complete genome of an Indian individual biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Joint effort by A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) ,FER, and partners, with support from the Singapore NPM programme! Joint effort with JJ Liu Lab! Prasadms and Josipa Lipovac as co-first authors.

I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors Mile Sikic and Xavier Bresson . (It actually happened several weeks ago, but I took some time off after the defence and was avoiding social media - highly recommended!)