Chase Smith
Senior Application Scientist
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Smith is a Senior Application Scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and cheminformatics, currently focused on applied solutions for pharmaceutical discovery. He blends hands-on synthetic organic chemistry and library synthesis expertise with product and project management experience gained at Optibrium and MilliporeSigma to translate computational tools into lab-ready workflows. A former Naval Officer and LCDR, Chase brings disciplined leadership and operational experience from complex international engineering and command roles to scientific teams. He has led academic departments and taught medicinal chemistry, pairing pedagogy and augmented reality-enabled teaching with practical lab instrumentation know-how. His background spans early-stage drug discovery at FORMA and GPC Biotech through to AI-enabled cheminformatics product work, making him adept at bridging bench chemistry and software-driven decision support. Based in Worcester, MA, he combines veteran-level crisis management skills (including firefighting experience) with a track record of delivering chemical technology and discovery programs.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Ph.D., Organic Chemistry at Florida State University
Github Skills (6)
python5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
compounds3
predict2
openstreetmap1
Github contributions (5)
OpenSourceMalaria/OSMSeries4Paper1
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 55 pushes, 44 comments in 1 year 8 months
deep-learningmalariapythonmachine-learning
OpenSourceMalaria/OSM_To_Do_List
Sep 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:176 comments, 2 issues in 5 years 3 months
action-itemsmalariapythonconsortium
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