Akash Pallath - Graduate Research Fellow

Akash Pallath

Graduate Research Fellow

Greater Boston United States

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Akash 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.

9 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 Technology

Bachelor 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 Gandhinagar

California Institute of Technology

Doctor 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)

umbrella9

energy9

simulation9

sampling9

simulations8

molecular-simulation7

cuda6

bottleneck6

coordinates6

searching6

high-performance5

creative-commons5

gpu5

reaction5

data-mining5

Programming languages (2)

C++Python

Github contributions (5)

apallath/keras_sklearn_models

Oct 2017 - Apr 2022

Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months

apallath/apallath.github.io

Nov 2019 - Jun 2024

Contributions:76 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months

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