Aaditya Surya

About Aaditya Surya

I’ve spent my life moving: from India to Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, Nepal, and now the…

Experience

1. Undergraduate Research Fellow

   RIT Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

   May 2025 — Present · Rochester, NY, US

   KC Lab is a computational biology research group at the Rochester Institute of Technology focused on applying machine learning and data-driven methods to understand protein structure, function, and evolution.At KC Lab, I conduct research on predicting N-linked glycosylation sites in archaeal proteins using protein language models (ESM-2, ProtT5, etc.) and large language model techniques. My work involves analyzing 5–10 million-entry mass spectrometry datasets and building robust pipelines to prepare large-scale data for model training. I design and train deep learning models for protein sequence classification, applying transfer learning, low-rank adaptation (LoRA), and full sequence-based window embeddings (FSWE) to adapt human-derived models for low-resource archaeal domains. I also generate custom sequence embeddings, optimize performance on imbalanced datasets, and develop evaluation sets tailored to archaeal proteins. Beyond classification, I explore extensions using structural data (e.g, AlphaFold outputs) to deepen insights into glycosylation and post-translational modifications, contributing to the broader understanding of protein evolution and biomedical research.

Education

• Lincoln School Nepal

  High School Diploma

• Bishop Mackenzie International School

  Middle School Diploma

• University of Southern California

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Business Administration