Gaurav Chopra
James Tarpo Jr. And Margaret Tarpo Professor at BrainGnosis Inc. (d/b/a LINKTON)
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolGaurav Chopra is a computationally-minded chemical biologist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience translating AI, mass spectrometry, and chemical biology into drug discovery and neuroimmunology breakthroughs. As the James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo Professor at Purdue and director of the Merck-Purdue Center, he leads the MIND lab on agentic drug discovery, single-cell lipidomics, and targeted immunotherapies for neurodegeneration and cancer. He bridges deep academic training (PhD in Computational Mathematics and Biology from Stanford) with company-building as co-founder/CEO of startups focused on AI agents and smart therapeutics. Gaurav’s work uniquely combines physical modeling and machine learning to train computers on chemical reactivity and measurements, enabling multiplayer and automated discovery workflows. Active across Purdue institutes for drug discovery, cancer, and neuroscience, he pairs hands-on mass-spec expertise with systems-level AI thinking to tackle how glial cells and immune brakes drive chronic inflammation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, MS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCI Samueli School of EngineeringCertificate, Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship, Certificate, Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)PhD, Computational Mathematics and Biology, PhD, Computational Mathematics and Biology at Stanford University School of EngineeringDelhi Public School, Mathura RoadProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chopralab/CHM579
Feb 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
chopralab/candock
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
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