Peter St John

Peter is currently a machine learning engineer working on the BioNeMo team at NVIDIA, where he is working on accelerating digital biology workflows in the protein and genomics space. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2022, he worked for 7 years as a project lead at the National Renewable Energy Lab, where his research investigated new fuel chemistries and microbial biomass conversion. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCSB in 2015.
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Posts by Peter St John

Simulation / Modeling / Design Sep 24, 2026

Efficient MoE Training for Biological Foundation Models

As language models grow, scaling dense architectures becomes increasingly expensive. In a dense transformer, every token passes through every layer, so adding... 7 MIN READ
Data Science Nov 05, 2025

Scale Biology Transformer Models with PyTorch and NVIDIA BioNeMo Recipes

Training models with billions or trillions of parameters demands advanced parallel computing. Researchers must decide how to combine parallelism strategies,... 7 MIN READ