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Hi, I'm Ishan.

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ABOUT

I’m a second-year PhD student at Berkeley AI Research, advised by Jennifer Listgarten. I work on generative models and agents for scientific discovery.

I spent part of my gap year at Aviv Regev's group at Genentech, working on multimodal language models with the wonderful Yongju Lee. Before that, I graduated from Stanford with bachelors and masters degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. During my time there, I was fortunate to have worked with Emma Lundberg on vision models for maping dynamic changes in the human proteome. I also had a blast working on using new hardware accelerators to run machine learning algorithms in computer networks, advised by Kunle Olukotun and Muhammad Shahbaz.

RESEARCH

ColorSwap: A Color and Word Order Dataset for Multimodal Evaluation

ACL, Aug 6, 2024

Jirayu Burapacheep, Ishan Gaur, Agam Bhatia, Tristan Thrush

Mapping the Multiscale Proteomic Organization of Cellular and Disease Phenotypes

Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, May 15, 2024

Anthony Cesnik*, Leah V Schaffer*, Ishan Gaur, Mayank Jain, Trey Ideker, Emma Lundberg

* Equal contribution

Multimodal cell maps as a foundation for structural and functional genomics

Nature, April 9, 2025

Leah V Schaffer, Mengzhou Hu, Gege Qian, Kyung-Mee Moon, Abantika Pal, Neelesh Soni, Andrew P Latham, Laura Pontano Vaites, Dorothy Tsai, Nicole M Mattson, Katherine Licon, Robin Bachelder, Anthony Cesnik, Ishan Gaur, Trang Le, William Leineweber, Aji Palar, Ernst Pulido, Yue Qin, Xiaoyu Zhao, Christopher Churas, Joanna Lenkiewicz, Jing Chen, Keiichiro Ono, Dexter Pratt, Peter Zage, Ignacia Echeverria, Andrej Sali, J Wade Harper, Steven P Gygi, Leonard J Foster, Edward L Huttlin, Emma Lundberg, Trey Ideker

Guide your favorite protein sequence generative model

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04823, May 7, 2025

Junhao Xiong*, Hunter Nisonoff*, Maria Lukarska*, Ishan Gaur*, Luke M Oltrogge, David F Savage, Jennifer Listgarten

* Equal contribution

Taurus: A Data Plane Architecture for Per-Packet ML

ASPLOS, Feb 28, 2022

(IETF Applied Networking Research Prize)

Tushar Swamy, Alexander Rucker, Muhammad Shahbaz, Ishan Gaur, Kunle Olukotun