Hi, I'm Ishan.
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 bachelor and master degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. During my time there, I was fortunate to have worked with Emma Lundberg on vision models for mapping 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.
I am also an EECS peer advisor and help run the BAIR Blog.
Research
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
Paper | Code | Dataset
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
Paper | Website | Code
ColorSwap: A Color and Word Order Dataset for Multimodal Evaluation
ACL, Aug 6, 2024
Jirayu Burapacheep, Ishan Gaur, Agam Bhatia, Tristan Thrush
Paper | Code | Dataset
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
Paper
A Cell-Cycle Resolved Multi-Scale Map of the Cell
Poster at Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, January 3, 2024
Ishan Gaur, Trang Le, Emma Lundberg
Poster | Code
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
Paper | Code