Michael Hla
RoleResearch
OrganizationEvolutionaryScale
EducationHarvard University (BA Computer Science & Biology)
Known forPro-1: open-source protein reasoning model (wet-lab validated, cited by Stanford CS 224R)
hCA-776: LLM-optimized carbonic anhydrase, 170% more active for carbon capture
SMILES-MDLM: masked diffusion for molecular generation
776 Foundation Climate Fellow (Alexis Ohanian)
Research at EvolutionaryScale (ESM protein language models)