Hi! I’m Aris Tsai, a high school student and researcher studying at Stanford Online High School and Sage Hill School. I’m interested in using computation to understand biological and chemical systems, especially when the goal is not just to make an accurate prediction, but to understand why it happens.

My research spans computational chemistry, molecular toxicology, structural biology, drug delivery, and machine learning. I’ve worked on projects ranging from mechanism-informed molecular fingerprints for chemical toxicity and molecular dynamics of disease-associated protein variants to quantum-chemical modeling and strategies for improving levodopa delivery in Parkinson’s disease. My interest in the latter is particularly personal, as my uncle’s diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease helped motivate my interest in computational medicine.

I’ve presented research at scientific conferences including the WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering, ACS Spring, ACM CHI, and the American Neurological Association Annual Meeting. In 2026, I participated in the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program, where I explored how molecular structure can be translated into interpretable representations for predicting chemical toxicity. That project was later selected as a Wolfram Community Staff Pick.

Outside of research, I’m interested in expanding access to STEM education through Trinity Academics, and I enjoy golf, violin, and learning about problems at the intersection of chemistry, biology, computation, and medicine.

I’m always excited to meet people working on interesting scientific problems—especially ones where computation can reveal something about the underlying mechanism.