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Nikhil Maturi

I work on AI for scientific problems, mostly in biology and medicine. I like models that help us ask better questions, not just models that score higher on a benchmark.

Research

Projects across molecules, imaging, cells, and clinical prediction

Research Observatory

A living map of AI for science work

An interactive page-section that treats research as a connected field: molecules, imaging physics, cellular mechanisms, and health systems as a measured instrument. Click or tap the satellites to switch projects.

InteractiveClick the satellites
AIfor science
Generative Biology

Antibiotic Adjuvant Design for RecA

A project on using predictive and generative models to search for RecA inhibitors that could make antibiotics work better.

Open research page
Writing

Notes on models, biology, and ideas I’m still working through

Essays are Markdown-backed. Some include small interactive figures when a static diagram would hide the interesting part.

2026-05-04 / 8 min

Biological Graphs Need World Models

Why graph neural networks feel right for biology, why they still underdeliver, and what a better AI-for-biology architecture might preserve.

2025-05-11 / 22 min

Inside Agentic Tool Use

A visual explainer of what happens between an LLM API request, tool execution, repeated inference, and the final streamed response.

2025-05-06 / 18 min

AI Coding Assistant Notes

Notes from using AI coding tools: mindset, prompting tactics, verification, context management, and working in real codebases.