Kathy earned her PhD in RNA synthetic biology with Christina Smolke at Stanford. She then went to a postdoc at the University of Washington in the Institute of Protein Design with David Baker, where she used Rosetta to computationally design de novo protein switches. Kathy then went to UC Berkeley to work with Daniel Fletcher, where she helped cross-pollinate the Baker and Fletcher labs. She began to apply her skills in industry at Amgen, where she led the AmgenFold team, which deployed state-of-the-art ML structure prediction methods for internal use. Now, she is co-founder and CSO for 310 AI, a generative AI company for designer biology. 310 AI believes that the design of novel biomolecules is the single largest advancement that can be enabled by AI.