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Euxhen Hasanaj

I'm working on the Virtual Cell at GenBio AI, a world model of the cell built to simulate, predict, and design biological behavior across scales.

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My work centers on biological foundation models: aging & senescence, graph learning, AI scientists, and sequence models for DNA and protein.

I completed my PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Ziv Bar-Joseph and Barnabás Póczos, focused on applying machine learning to biomarker discovery for cellular senescence, a driver of aging. I also hold an MS in Machine Learning from CMU and a BA in Computer Science & Mathematics from AUBG.

Previously I worked on drug discovery at Sanofi and Genesis Therapeutics.

latest publication

SenSet defines cell-type specific senescence signatures in the aged human lung

EMBO Journal · 2026

latest post

A Guide to Trivial Baselines in Computational Biology

A field guide to the boring baselines you should compute before trusting any fancy model. · Aug 2026