Rıza Özcelik is a Ph.D. student in the Molecular Machine Learning group at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Dr. Francesca Grisoni. He received his MSc. degree from the Department of Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Turkey, where he studied structure-based drug-target affinity prediction. His current research focuses on developing novel generative deep learning approaches for de novo chemical design.