Danyal R.
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AI PhD @ MIT | Banting Fellow @ Mila & Harvard | Coached 50+ students
3,060 min coached
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Works at MilaQuebec
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Danyal's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $150/hr
Get help with Grant Writing, Research Opportunities, and .
Danyal also coaches for PhD Programs, Master’s Programs, and Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships. View all.
Danyal’s Fellowship & Postdocs Programs Qualifications
Coaches professionally
10+ people coached for Fellowship & Postdocs Programs
Danyal has helped clients get into these schools:
I have been awarded multiple prestigious postdoctoral offers, receiving positions from MIT, Harvard, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, etc. I have also received the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is the most prestigious fellowship in Canada with a 10% acceptance rate. In addition, I have been awarded the NSERC PDF, Mila Postdoctoral Fellowship, and others, totalling over $300,000 in funding.
Danyal can help with:
Grant Writing
Research Opportunities
Fellowship Essays
Personal Statement
Research Publications
Program Selection
Resume Review
Secondary Essays
Letters of Recommendation
Statement of Purpose
Application Strategy
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Interviews
Networking Strategy
Interview Prep
Research Funding
Research Proposal
Danyal also coaches for PhD Programs, Master’s Programs, and Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships. View all.
Work Experience
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
MilaQuebec
July 2024 - Present
Advisor: Yoshua Bengio Generative artificial intelligence and geometric deep learning for materials and drug discovery
Visiting Researcher
Broad Institute
March 2024 - Present
Advisor: James Collins; Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center & Harvard Medical School Generative artificial intelligence and active learning for synthesizable molecular discovery
PhD Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 2018 - February 2024
Advisor: John Lienhard Physics-informed deep learning to improve the accuracy and generalizability of multi-ionic transport models for critical metals
Graduate Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 2022 - December 2023
Advisor: Yann LeCun Self-supervised learning with Lie point symmetries for partial differential equations
AI/ML Fellow
Flagship Pioneering
June 2023 - August 2023
Deep learning for venture creation in the sustainable chemistry and drug discovery space
Graduate Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 2018 - October 2019
Advisor: Leon Glicksman Modelled evaporation-driven heat and mass transfer from wetted surfaces; model predictions were within 4% of experimental measurements across field trials in Mali, Kenya, Rwanda, and Burkina Faso
Research Associate
University of Toronto
August 2015 - January 2018
High-speed numerical Navier-Stokes solvers to rapidly model wind turbine wakes on complex terrain; reduced-order models solved 2 orders of magnitude faster than full CFD simulations with errors of 5-7%
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Toronto
May 2015 - August 2017
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Award Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for turbulent flow around hydro turbines
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Toronto
September 2016 - December 2016
Density functional theory (DFT) for quantum simulations to optimize biofuel production from CO₂
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science
2018 - 2024
Grade: 5.00/5.00
University of Toronto
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) with High Honours, Mechanical Engineering
2012 - 2017
Ranked 1st in Class of 189
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Overall Rating
5.0
Danyal has helped clients get into these schools: