Rishwanth Raghu

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Hi! I’m a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Professor Ellen D. Zhong.

I am broadly interested in the application of ML to problems in structural biology. In particular, my research focuses on the 3D reconstruction of dynamic protein structure from cryo-EM and cryo-ET imaging data.

I’m fortunate to have interned at Microsoft Research AI for Science and the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute. Previously, I completed my B.S.E. and M.S.E. at Princeton University.

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rraghu [at] princeton [dot] edu

Publications

* denotes equal contribution
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    Multiscale guidance of AlphaFold3 with heterogeneous cryo-EM data
    Rishwanth Raghu, Axel Levy, Gordon Wetzstein, and Ellen D. Zhong
    NeurIPS, 2025
    Paper
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    CryoDRGN-AI: Neural ab initio reconstruction of challenging cryo-EM and cryo-ET datasets
    Axel Levy, Rishwanth Raghu, J. Ryan Feathers, Michal Grzadkowski, Frédéric Poitevin, Jake D. Johnston, Francesca Vallese, Oliver Biggs Clarke, Gordon Wetzstein, and Ellen D. Zhong
    Nature Methods, 2025
    Paper Code
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    Cryo-ET reveals the in situ architecture of the polar tube invasion apparatus from microsporidian parasites
    Mahrukh Usmani, Nicolas Coudray, Margot Riggi, Rishwanth Raghu, Harshita Ramchandani, Daija Bobe, Mykhailo Kopylov, Ellen D. Zhong, Janet H. Iwasa, Damian Charles Ekiert, and Gira Bhabha
    PNAS, 2025
    Paper
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    Mixture of neural fields for heterogeneous reconstruction in cryo-EM
    Axel Levy*, Rishwanth Raghu*, David Shustin*, Adele Rui-Yang Peng, Huan Li, Oliver Biggs Clarke, Gordon Wetzstein, and Ellen D. Zhong
    NeurIPS, 2024
    Paper Code Website
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    CryoBench: Diverse and challenging datasets for the heterogeneity problem in cryo-EM
    Minkyu Jeon, Rishwanth Raghu, Miro Astore, Geoffrey Woollard, Ryan Feathers, Alkin Kaz, Sonya M. Hanson, Pilar Cossio, and Ellen D. Zhong
    NeurIPS, 2024 (Spotlight)
    Paper Code Website
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    Conformational states of the microtubule nucleator, the γ-tubulin ring complex
    Brianna Romer, Sophie M. Travis, Brian P. Mahon, Collin T. McManus, Philip D. Jeffrey, Nicholas Coudray, Rishwanth Raghu, Michael J. Rale, Ellen D. Zhong, Gira Bhabha, and Sabine Petry
    bioRxiv, 2023
    Preprint