At Deep Origin, I designed and shipped features across the Balto AI assistant and the core scientific platform. My work focused on helping scientists analyze complex molecular datasets, speed up research workflows, and make faster, more confident decisions in the drug discovery process.
Lead Product Designer · Balto & platform
Cross-functional product + science org
SaaS · Scientific platform
AI assistant · Data viz · Workflow
Drug discovery scientists rely on multiple specialized software tools for modeling, data analysis, visualization, and comparison. Each platform has its own interface, workflows, and learning curve, forcing researchers to spend significant time switching contexts and mastering different systems instead of focusing on scientific insight.
This fragmentation slows down decision-making, increases cognitive load, and delays critical research milestones · at the exact moments where speed and confidence matter most.
A recurring theme across every scientist we interviewed.
Balto integrates analysis, visualization, and comparison into a single unified interface. By connecting data sources and automating complex workflows, the tool enables scientists to query results, compare compounds, and generate insights through natural language and intelligent recommendations.
Uploads became informational and metrics-oriented rather than opaque imports. A team dashboard surfaced tasks, shareable knowledge, and success metrics · so the AI output lived inside a shared scientific workflow, not a chat sidebar.
The result: scientists can focus on interpreting results rather than navigating software.
Designing for scientists taught me that AI in a domain tool has to be legible, auditable, and always in service of the human decision. The assistant's best feature isn't answering questions · it's showing its work in a way that an expert can challenge, trust, and build on.
Thanks to Balto, Deep Origin is now leading an up-to-$31.7M ARPA-H contract award to build advanced in-silicon models designed to help replace animal testing · accelerating safer and more ethical drug development.