Welcome to the Biology & Machine Learning Society at UT Austin

The BioML Society is a vibrant community of researchers using machine learning to solve biochemical problems. Our mission is to accelerate progress in applying machine learning for biology by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and engaging with the scientific community.

What we’ve done so far:

• Seminar + Course: in the Fall of 2023, we created a seminar series on BioML. In Fall 2024, the interest generated led to an official UT course taught by Dr. Claus Wilke.

• Protein Design Competition: in August of 2024, we launched a global protein design competition, attracting teams from over 40 countries around the world.

• BioML Fellowship: in Fall 2025, we launched the Charles W. Smith Jr. Graduate Fellowship in AI/ML for Biosciences, funding two doctoral students per year.

• Guest Speakers: since our founding, we have had a steady lineup of talented leaders in the BioML space to share their work with us.

• Cross-Lab Research: through gathering wide attention and being a center of gravity, the BioML Society as led to many collaborations throughout the Texas research ecosystem and beyond Texas, breaking out of the silos that we previously experienced.

• Reading Groups and Education: we consistently hold reading groups and education-oriented meetings to help bootstrap everyone’s knowledge in BioML and the larger field of computational sciences.

Join us. If you’re training models, generating data, or hoping to find a computational collaborator, please come say hello.

Meeting Time & Location:
First and Third Thursday of each month from 11 am to 12 pm — MBB 3.204 (tacos & coffee provided).

See our (mostly) up-to-date meeting schedule here.