Benjamin Sanchez-lengeling
Assistant Professor at RIIAA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBenjamin Sanchez-lengeling is an assistant professor and computational chemist with 13 years of experience applying data-driven methods to solve complex chemical problems across academia and industry. He held research scientist roles at Google and DeepMind before transitioning to academia at the University of Toronto, and he mentors startups through Creative Destruction Lab. A co-founder of nonprofit science education initiatives in Mexico and an organizer at RIIAA, he blends research with a strong commitment to science outreach and capacity building. Trained in mathematics, computer science and computational chemistry (PhD Harvard; Erasmus Mundus master's), he brings rigorous quantitative modeling and machine learning expertise to problems in materials and molecular design. Less obvious: his career bridges high-impact industrial research and grassroots science education, allowing him to translate cutting-edge methods into accessible tools and programs.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Universidad de GuanajuatoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Computational Science and Engineering, Energy Policy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Computational Science and Engineering, Energy Policy at Harvard UniversityErasmus Mundus Master, Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modeling, Erasmus Mundus Master, Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modeling at University of Valencia
Spanish, English, Japanese, French
Github Skills (72)
distributions10
generative-adversarial-network10
keras10
molecule9
stochastic-processes8
chemistry8
gtk8
gnn8
bayesian-statistics8
tensorflow8
gaussian-processes8
materials-informatics8
benchmark7
computational-biology7
qt7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cvicom/deep_learning_escuela_verano_19
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Entorno, notebooks y codigo para la escuela de verano de Deep Learning @UNAM '19
Contributions:37 commits, 35 pushes in 19 days
deep-learning
beangoben/dataDrivenChemistry
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
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