Arjun Chandrasekhar
Assistant Professor at Southwestern University
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolArjun Chandrasekhar is an assistant professor of Math and Computer Science at Southwestern University with 11 years of experience bridging theoretical computer science and computational biology. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Caltech and a PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from UC San Diego, and his research focuses on biological distributed algorithms. Arjun has taught a wide range of courses—from introductory programming to formal methods and automata—at institutions including Pitt, UCSD, and USD, and he designs curricula that connect discrete math and theory to practical data science skills. His industry internships (Twitter, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Adaptly) reflect hands-on work in machine learning pipelines, network analysis, and threat-detection algorithms, underscoring a strong practical bent alongside rigorous theory. Based in Austin, he blends interdisciplinary research, classroom innovation, and production-quality tooling to translate complex biological and algorithmic questions into teachable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4.0, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4.0 at California Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
bayesian8
mcmc8
bayesian-inference8
python7
probabilistic-programming7
variational-inference7
version-control4
jupyter4
preprocess2
pandas2
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arjunc12/neurons
Mar 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
arjunc12/Plant-Architecture
Jul 2020 - May 2026
Studying whether plants grow in a Pareto-optimal manner
Contributions:3 PRs, 71 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 10 months
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