Bryan Duoto

Bryan Duoto is a hybrid machine learning engineer and wet-lab scientist with research and engineering depth spanning biomedical engineering, synthetic biology, drug discovery, and microbial bioprospecting. He holds a PhD in Biomedical NanoEngineering and an MS in Data Science and Engineering from UC San Diego (2025), an MS in NanoEngineering from UCSD (2022), an MS in Molecular and Cell Biology from Stanford and San José State University (2018), and a BS in Biology from Sonoma State University.

Previously, as the Founder of Embark Bio, he developed CHEMzyme — a conditional protein language model for controllable generation of artificial enzymes from user-specified catalytic reactions — and partnered with Death Valley to source extremophilic microbial samples for training genomic and enzymatic language models. He was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Allen Institute for AI. His work appears in Science, Science Translational Medicine, Cell Reports, Chemical Science, and Scientific Reports.

June 2026