Harmon Bhasin
I'm a Member of Technical Staff at LatchBio, where I lead the biosecurity division working on KYC and evals.
I joined through LatchBio's acquisition of TwentyTwo, the YC-backed startup I co-founded and led as CTO, building AI infrastructure for biosecurity.
Thinking about biosecurity, aixbio, and ml systems.
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Writing
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- What I'd Tell a Friend Starting Their First Job
- How Do We Keep AI From Enabling Bioweapons
- ★ Computer Scientist's Guide to Stopping Pandemics
- Life in the Terminal Can Be Enjoyable
- Code Meets Cell: Exploring the Frontier Where Computation Is Transforming Biology
- Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 3: The Blood Virome ↗
- Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 2: Sampling Strategies Within the US Blood Supply ↗
- Early Career Resources ↗
- Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sample Type ↗
Background
I completed my undergrad in CS from UW-Madison, where I was privileged to be mentored by Sushmita Roy, Junjie Hu, and Stav Atir. During my time there, I developed methods for understanding gene regulation through analyzing single cell omic datasets (scRNA-seq & scATAC-seq), with orthogonal work in transformer interpretability.
After graduating, I conducted biosecurity research with Kevin Esvelt at MIT while building out biosurveillance software at SecureBio's Detection team. Specifically, I helped build their computational infrastructure for processing billions of sequencing reads for untargeted metagenomic sequencing.
I have also co-founded a few startups, including Fusera, which was building a better ml compiler, LitAI, which was an AI-powered agentic research tool that runs in your terminal, and Helm, which provided observability for ASIC bitcoin mining.