Dustin Sands
Senior Process Modeler at Ark Biotech
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDustin Sands is a Senior Process Modeler and biochemical engineer with 8 years of experience building digital twins, simulation frameworks, and ML-driven automation for bioprocessing across 2L–1000L bioreactors and GMP environments. He has led cross-functional projects at Ark Biotech and Takeda to optimize cultured meat and cell therapy processes, delivering measurable yield and operational improvements through in-silico CMC tools and predictive control. Equally comfortable coding in Python and C as he is developing assays (photospectrometry, Raman), he bridges wet-lab insight and software engineering to turn experimental data into deployable models. His work spans technoeconomic analysis, process selection (fed-batch vs perfusion), and state-based probabilistic methods — with side interests in encryption and blockchain concepts applied to secure data workflows. Based in Cambridge, MA, he maintains an active portfolio of upstream cell culture simulators and ML research that underscore a practical, research-forward approach to bioprocess digitalization.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University College London
Github Skills (11)
password-generator10
cuda10
opencl10
cracking10
password-recovery10
gpgpu10
password-manager10
hashcat10
recovery10
fastest9
bioinformatics5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DustinSands/CC-sim
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Generate and train on Cell Culture data
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
bioinformaticstrain
DustinSands/Hanabi
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 months
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