# Alexandra Volkova

> MIT CS & Mol Bio & Finance ’25 | MEng ’26 Jensen Lab | Coley, Langer & Tsai Lab | Regeneron Scholar ’22

Location: Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexandravolkova

I recently graduated from MIT (2022-2025) with a double-major in Computer Science and Molecular Biology & Finance, and am returning to MIT for another year to pursue an MEng in Computer Science and Molecular Biology in the Jensen Lab, working with Dr. Seung Kyun Ha on chemical impurity prediction in collaboration with a team from Novartis. 

My research with the Coley Lab, developing a cost metric for a drug target exploration cost-reward optimization tool, led to a second author publication in JCIM. Additionally, my work on computational analysis with the miBrain perfusable brain-on-a-chip team in the Langer and Tsai Labs was featured in several AIChE conference proceedings, culminating in a paper awaiting publication in PNAS (pre-print available). 

At MIT, I was a member of the MIT New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) Living Machines Thread, specializing in Computational Biology. In my third year, I was a Co-VP of Finance for the MIT Biotech Group (MBG), the Industry Relations Officer at NEET, a member of the Schwarzman College of Computing Undergraduate Advisory Board, and a Co-President of the MITech Consulting Club. As a consultant of the MITech Consulting Club, I led a project for nurtur, a women's health startup, and consulted on a project for Speechify, an AI-driven text-to-speech platform, among others.

Currently, I work as a Software Lead at the MIT Sandbox-funded health tech startup AyuConnect, which seeks to create a modern electronic health record system (EHR) for small to mid-size hospitals in India. My sophomore summer, I worked with the MIT student-founded deltaV startup Boston Quantum, designing a frontend for their currency trading platform and linking it to their quantum-inspired trading algorithms. Previously, I interned at Reckitt as a Processing Intern for Dettol, helping optimize the production of their largest-by-volume liquid hand wash formula.

## Work Experience
### Laboratory Assistant for 6.C01 (Modeling with ML) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2026 – Present

### Laboratory Assistant for 6.3900 (Machine Learning) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2025 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Graduate Researcher @ MIT Jensen Lab
Jan 2025 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Startup SWE First Employee @ MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
Jan 2025 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Coley Lab
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, MA

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Langer & Tsai Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Worked with Dr. Alice Stanton on miBrain "brain on a chip" design.

### Laboratory Assistant for 6.C01 (Modeling with ML) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

### Software Development Intern @ Boston Quantum
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Software Consultant @ nurtur
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Grader for 3.091 (Solid State Chemistry) @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Langer-Anderson Laboratory
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Worked to enhance targeted siRNA delivery to astrocytes with Dr. Patrick McMullen

### Dettol Processing Intern @ Reckitt
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Montvale, New Jersey, United States


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science and Molecular Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Computer Science and Molecular Biology and Finance in Computational Biology, Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Academy of Technology and Computer Science
Bergen County Academies


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandra-volkova-mit
- GitHub: https://github.com/alevol22
- Portfolio: https://alexandravolkova.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13