Andrew Leaver-fay
Molecular Modeling Lead at Prescient Design
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Leaver-fay is a molecular modeling lead with over a decade of experience translating structural biology problems into scalable, memory-efficient software and algorithms. He has been a core Rosetta developer since 2004 and recently led a 40-person effort to re-architect it into a fully object-oriented codebase, blending deep domain knowledge with large-scale software leadership. His PhD in computer science underpins work that includes a striking algorithmic win—replacing a brute-force routine in REDUCE with dynamic programming to accelerate hydrogen placement by 12 orders of magnitude. Based in Carrboro, NC, he has bridged academia, startups, and industry as a research professor, co-founder, and now lead at Prescient Design, consistently focusing on practical performance improvements that enable new science.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBA, Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy, BA, Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
319reputation
8kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (40)
google-colab10
gpu10
rosetta10
protein-design9
jupyter-notebook9
oop8
versioning7
initialization6
boilerplate6
cloning6
xcode6
go6
python6
gcc6
enums6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aleaverfay/swiftlib_javascript
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:98 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
optimizationsolvercodondynamic-programmingdegenerate
uw-ipd/tmol
Apr 2018 - Feb 2023
TMol - Rosetta on the GPU
Contributions:1 release, 80 reviews, 915 commits in 4 years 10 months
gpu
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