Aishani Aatresh

Biological Systems Engineer

Aishani Aatresh joined Distributed Bio in June of 2018 as a Computational Immunoengineer. She primarily developed Archetype, a statistical pipeline for antibody therapeutic optimization, while collaborating on various computational initiatives to accelerate Distributed Bio’s therapeutic discovery projects and capabilities. Her computational research has continued through COVID-19 therapeutic development at Centivax, where she has additionally contributed to strategic partnerships and communications, business development, and study design.

She graduated from Harvard College in 2024 with an AB in Complex Biosocial Systems, a degree of her own design. Her undergraduate research focused on outbreak preparedness and global governance through the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School (under Sheila Jasanoff) and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (under Marc Lipsitch, Yonatan Grad, and Michael Mina). This work has spanned diagnostics, surveillance, mathematical modeling, and vaccine development for infectious diseases, including internships and field work with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health+Hospitals. Aishani will be continuing this research at the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.