Mihir Bafna

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in EECS at MIT advised by Bonnie Berger, interested in deep learning for structural biology and drug discovery. I am also a Machine Learning Scientist at Liquid AI, where I work on PLMs.

Previously, I completed my B.S. in CS from Georgia Tech specializing in the machine learning and theory threads. There, I worked on graph representation learning for spatial transcriptomics and was incredibly fortunate to have been advised by Xiuwei Zhang (GT), Jian Ma (CMU), and Ruochi Zhang (Broad).





selected publications


  1. bioRxiv
    DANGO: Predicting Higher-Order Genetic Interactions
    Ruochi ZhangMihir Bafna, Jianzhu Ma, and Jian Ma
    bioRxiv Jan 2025
  2. MLSB
    DiffRNAFold: Generating RNA Tertiary Structures with Latent Space Diffusion
    Mihir Bafna, Vikranth Keerthipati, Subhash Kanaparthi, and Ruochi Zhang
    NeurIPS MLSB Dec 2023
  3. ISMB
    CLARIFY: Cell-cell interaction and gene regulatory network refinement from spatially resolved transcriptomics
    Mihir BafnaHechen Li, and Xiuwei Zhang
    ISMB and Bioinformatics Jun 2023