Cory Kornowicz
Co-Founder at Zest
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Kornowicz is a machine learning engineer and co-founder with a decade of hands-on experience building AI-driven drug discovery infrastructure and aging-related models. Based in Rochester, NY, he blends computational chemistry research from his undergraduate work with practical engineering—designing end-to-end ML pipelines for wearable data, blood biomarkers, and hit-to-lead optimization. At LiteFold and previously OpenBench and Zest he has moved rapidly between research and production, reimplementing state-of-the-art models in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX and optimizing performance with Cython/Numba on AWS. His background in bioinformatics and a current master's in chemistry give him a rare dual fluency in molecular mechanisms and scalable ML systems. Notably, he has delivered both consumer-facing apps and backend discovery platforms, demonstrating an unusually broad bridge between lab-scale insight and product-grade infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAdvanced Regents Diploma with Honors Distinction General Studies, Advanced Regents Diploma with Honors Distinction General Studies at St. Francis High School Hamburg, NY
Github Skills (83)
openbabel9
simulation9
protein-ligand-interactions8
python-bindings8
molecular-simulation8
doi7
predict7
bioinformatics7
cuda7
monte-carlo6
regression6
pdb6
gpu6
systems-biology6
high-performance6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CoryKornowicz/MolKit
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
CoryKornowicz/Pharmaceutical-Refinement-Pipeline
Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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