Debesh Mandal
Co-Founder And CEO at Nanograb (YC S23)
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolDebesh Mandal is a scientist-turned-founder who blends a PhD in Computational Biophysics from Imperial College with 8 years of hands-on scientific computing and startup experience to commercialise DNA-powered diagnostics as Co-Founder and CEO of Nanograb (YC S23). He specialises in turning theoretical physics models into robust scientific software, building Python packages, HPC workflows and parallel simulations for soft materials while also drawing on C++, MATLAB, Go and web stacks. A previous Imperial Innovation Award winner and co-founder of IRIS Drone Technologies, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with rigorous model validation and ML/AI integration. Based in London, he is unusually comfortable moving between high-level physics abstractions and production engineering, enabling programmable testing platforms grounded in first-principles simulations.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
S23, S23 at Y CombinatorPhD, PhD at Imperial College LondonThe Manchester Grammar School
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Github Skills (59)
simulate10
forge10
python-bindings9
console9
simulation9
docking9
placement9
simulations9
command-line9
bioinformatics9
systems-biology9
robocup9
genomics8
windows-terminal8
cmd8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
debeshmandal/hydrogels
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Tools for generating simulations of gels
Contributions:12 releases, 384 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 11 months
simulationssimulationgels
debeshmandal/debeshmandal.github.io
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Website
Contributions:11 PRs, 48 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 4 months
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