Ron Shprints

Ron Shprints

Ron Shprints

I'm a ML researcher working on drug discovery and molecular design. Generally, I'm interested in facilitating the process in which we simulate materials, probe their properties, test them in wet labs, and develop them into useful products.

Research

For the full list of publications, please visit the Google Scholar page.

New · 2026

Few-step Cofolding with All-Atom Flow Maps

Gianluca Scarpellini, Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth, Juno Nam, Pranav Murugan, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Tommi Jaakkola, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Nicholas Matthew Boffi, Avishek Joey Bose

Figure for Few-step Cofolding with All-Atom Flow Maps

2026

FragmentFlow: Scalable Transition State Generation for Large Molecules

Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth, Juno Nam, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Tommi Jaakkola

AI4Mat and FM4Science Workshops at the 2026 International Conference on Learning Representations

Figure for FragmentFlow

Bio

Education

I obtained my MEng in Computer Science from MIT. There, I worked in Professor Tommi Jaakkola's group and collaborated closely with Peter Holderrieth and Juno Nam.

Before that, I graduated from MIT with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and in Computer Science and Engineering. I started my research journey as an undergraduate student at Professor Klavs Jensen's group working with (now Professor) Andrew Zahrt. This experience convinced me that the recent advances in ML can be quite impactful on the way we do science, so I decided to devote the rest of my undergraduate studies to explore that route. I continued to Professor Connor Coley's group, where I worked closely with (soon Professor) Wenhao Gao for 2 wonderful years. During my last year of college, I worked on video generative models with Professor Kaiming He and on sampling rare events with Professor Stephen Bates. After graduating, I interned at Voltaris AI, where I worked on molecular simulation.

Teaching

Fun

I enjoy swimming quite a bit, but ever since I graduated from college and I no longer live 5 minutes away from an olympic pool, I mostly replaced it with some combination of weightlifting and different forms of cardio. I'm generally a big sports fan: my favorites are basketball and soccer, but you probably can't find a sport that I wouldn't enjoy watching/playing/doing. I also like photography, playing strategic games, and DJing.

Potpourri

A small collection of things outside research.

my favorite spot in boston

2026

Favorite spot in Boston