Alyssa DeLucia

Chemistry PhD @ChemistryUIUC |@OlshanskyLab Alumnus

[Biochemistry @BiochemistryACS]

Metalloprotein design:

Fatima et al report switchable artificial metalloproteins (swArMs) that reveal how external triggers can change the H-bonding microenvironment.

https://t.co/shKIz4TnNF

@MRLatIllinois
@BeckmanIllinois
@IUBChemistry
@UMich

[Paul J. Griffin @PaulJGriffin2]

I went back to UIUC this weekend to meet up with some old friends and get hooded for my PhD with @AlyssaDelucia and @SamanFatimaUIUC by @OlshanskyLab ! Nearly a year after I left, but better late than never!

Photo credit to @Alexir563

[The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation @dreyfusfndn]

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Olshansky, @UofIllinois, for being named a 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! @OlshanskyLab @ChemistryUIUC #DreyfusAwards

[Suzanna Sia @suzyahyah]

1. Problem:

Base LLMs can perform zero-shot Translation, but are poorly calibrated and sometimes “fail to translate”; i.e. they continue generating in the source language or produce empty generations.

2. Proposed solution
3. Limitations
4. Additional
5. Concurrent Work

1/5

[Alyssa DeLucia @AlyssaDelucia]

Happy to ring in the new year with a publication! Check it out if you love Magic Green, kinetics, and dynamic complexes.
@OlshanskyLab @ChemistryUIUC @InorgChem

https://t.co/AzyHkE6fn0

[DOE Office of Science @doescience]

Plants are experts at transforming energy from the sun into energy they can use. @UofIllinois researchers are learning from plants about the best ways to use catalysts and catalytic sites to transfer electrons. This could lead to better solar panels: https://t.co/4iN1Gr6hUP

[Mark Dredze @mdredze]

My student @Alexir563 will be speaking at the CASE Workshop about a new ML approach to jointly identify tweets and detect civil unrest events to support research about democratic movements.

Code/data: https://t.co/gkC6ZemagS
Paper: https://t.co/CqvvOxGofd

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

So excited to have our work with the FDA advertised!

TL;DR we gathered health concerns surrounding vaping electronic cigarettes from Reddit

[DaltonTransactions @DaltonTrans]

The Dalton Outstanding Paper Award 2022 was awarded to @OlshanskyLab & co for their paper on conformationally dynamic copper coordination complexes🎉

Find out more about the authors behind this outstanding paper👇

https://t.co/25MkvVUHjl

@brontejoan_ @PaulJGriffin2 @clairezim3

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

It's that time of year again, Graduate school visits! Be sure to make the most of them by asking important questions

[Saman Fatima @SamanFatimaUIUC]

On this International Day of Women & Girls in Science, @AlyssaDelucia & I attended #weSTEM2023 conference organized by @GradSWEillinois. A fantastic line up of STEM leaders from academia & industry! Thank you to all the women leaders for paving the way for future generations!

[Saman Fatima @SamanFatimaUIUC]

Attending the #MetalsinBiology @GordonConf for the first time and @AlyssaDelucia & I have had a wonderful time so far! Amazing science combined with beautiful weather! 😍 @OlshanskyLab #MIBGRC2023

[Alyssa DeLucia @AlyssaDelucia]

@TrumanLab For now I am using my university to host my website as it is free! https://t.co/hrPKJRNkbY

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Engineering a Conformationally Switchable Artificial Metalloprotein @OlshanskyLab @ChemistryUIUC @UofIllinois #Engineering #Conformational #Switchable #Metalloprotein https://t.co/cPrkizUxEB

[Alyssa DeLucia @AlyssaDelucia]

So proud of my twin for publishing her first conference paper!

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

Introducing Bernice: A Multilingual Pre-trained Encoder for Twitter

Work by Alexandra DeLucia (me, @alexir563), Shijie Wu @EzraWu, Aaron Mueller @amuuueller, Carlos Aguirre @pocaguirre, Mark Dredze @mdredze, and Philip Resnik @psresnik

Model: https://t.co/f1u9QZuFpW

[Alyssa DeLucia @AlyssaDelucia]

Happy to announce that I have passed my Original Research Proposal defense! Next degree requirement is my thesis defense! Thank you to everyone who offered support throughout this process. @OlshanskyLab #AcademicTwitter @ChemistryUIUC #Chemistry #phdlife

[Alyssa DeLucia @AlyssaDelucia]

My reaction didn’t work as expected but at least had the decency to be beautiful

[Dr. Ortiz, Process Chemistry-er @KCGOrtiz]

✨💁‍♀️ Gorgeous gorgeous girls fully characterize each new, unreported, compound as they make them 💁‍♀️ ✨

[Alexandra DeLucia @Alexir563]

Prospective grad students: are you struggling to come up with questions at visit weekends?

Don't fret, @AlyssaDelucia and I have put together a list based on ours+others' experiences!

https://t.co/PErrrXnSSH

@OpenAcademics @PhDVoice

[Alexis Garretson @GarretsonAlexis]

I missed some red flags when I interviewed for my first grad program a few years ago, so here are some questions I think are worth asking during PhD interviews, a #Thread

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter