Akash Pallath
Graduate Research Fellow
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Pallath is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania who applies scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning to probe hydration-driven behavior of polymers, proteins, and hydrophobic surfaces. With a decade of research experience spanning IIT Gandhinagar, Caltech, and international internships, he combines deep computational skill with experimental insight to tackle interdisciplinary problems. He has translated lab innovation into practice by co-leading commercialization and go-to-market efforts for Protein Design Solutions, navigating NSF I-Corps and Penn I-Corps programs. Outside the lab he advises biotech and VC clients through data-driven strategy work at Penn Biotech Group and contributes scientific software projects like PaperFetcher on GitHub. Comfortable at the intersection of academia, entrepreneurship, and consulting, he brings both technical depth and a knack for turning complex science into actionable business insight.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
JASSO Scholarship, Information Science, JASSO Scholarship, Information Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, Hindi, English
Github Skills (21)
meta-analysis10
statistical-mechanics9
optimization9
data-retrieval9
log-likelihood9
simulation8
molecular-simulation8
python7
automation6
searching6
creative-commons5
coordinates5
reaction5
data-mining5
simulations4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apallath/keras_sklearn_models
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
paperfetcher/paperfetcher
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Pip-installable Python package to automate handsearching and citation searching for systematic reviews.
Contributions:5 releases, 70 commits, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
pythonautomationmeta-analysissystematic-reviewdata-retrieval
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