Gino Cassella


Currently, I am working at Isomorphic Labs, a Google-backed startup on a mission to 'redefine drug discovery with the power and pace of artificial intelligence'.

Before moving to Iso, I was a PhD student in the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Imperial College London, supervised by Prof. Matthew Foulkes (ICL), David Pfau (Google DeepMind), and James Spencer (Google DeepMind). There, my research centered on leveraging the power of deep neural networks to solve the many-body Schrodinger equation -- the fundamental equation of everyday physics, from which all of chemistry and biology may be derived.

More broadly, I am enthusiastic about applying deep learning to the natural sciences in the hope of achieving the same radical progress that has been realised in fields such as computer vision and natural language processing.

Previously I obtained my Masters degree from the University of Bath, supervised by Dr. Anton Suslov (now Cambridge TCM), where I studied topological excitations in fluids with odd viscosity. I still occasionally moonlight in the realm of topological physics, given it is both fun and fashionable. During my undergraduate studies I also spent some time in the world of experimental physics, spending just over a year at the ISIS Neutron & Muon Source where I was centrally involved in a project to upgrade the LET spectrometer for polarised neutron spectroscopy experiments.

Publications


2024

Neural network variational Monte Carlo for positronic chemistry
G Cassella, WMC Foulkes, D Pfau, JS Spencer
Nature Communications

Neural wave functions for superfluids
WT Lou, H Sutterud, G Cassella, WMC Foulkes, J Knolle, D Pfau, JS Spencer
Physical Review X

2023

Discovering quantum phase transitions with fermionic neural networks
G Cassella, H Sutterud, S Azadi, ND Drummond, D Pfau, JS Spencer, WMC Foulkes
Physical Review Letters, Editors' Suggestion

An exact chiral amorphous spin liquid
G Cassella, P d'Ornellas, T Hodson, WMH Natori, J Knolle
Nature Communications

2022

z+: Neutron cross section separation from wide-angle uniaxial polarization analysis
GJ Nilsen, S Arslan, G Cassella, RS Perry, JP Goff, DJ Voneshen
Review of Scientific Instruments

2021

Complete absorption of topologically protected waves
G Baardink, G Cassella, L Neville, PA Milewski, A Souslov
Physical Review E

2019

Polarization analysis on the LET cold neutron spectrometer using a 3He spin-filter: First results
G Cassella, JR Stewart, GM Paterno, VG Sakai, M Devonport, PJ Galsworthy, RI Bewley, DJ Voneshen, D Raspino, GJ Nilsen
Journal of Physics: Conference Series