Hersh Bhargava
Biophysics Ph.D. Candidate
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHersh Bhargava is a Biophysics Ph.D. candidate at UCSF and a Department of Defense NDSEG fellow who combines computational and experimental approaches to design next-generation cell-based therapeutics. With 11 years of experience spanning academic research, biomedical machine learning, and entrepreneurship, he co-founded software consultancy H2 Micro and startup Skolay while leading interdisciplinary projects across UCSF, Penn, and Berkeley. His work ranges from structural biology and protein mechanism elucidation (PNAS) to clinical-grade machine learning models for cancer prognosis, reflecting fluency in wet-lab biophysics, computational modeling, and course design. Based in San Francisco, he mentors students as a GSI and brings unusual cross-domain fluency—translating software engineering practices into scalable biology research pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Molecular and Cell Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, BerkeleyPhillips Exeter AcademyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco
English, French, Latin, Greek
Stackoverflow
615reputation
24kreached
6answers
35questions
Github Skills (90)
python10
immunology10
automation10
hammerspoon10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
iot10
asyncio10
privacy10
irc10
raspberry-pi10
lua9
cytoscapejs9
internet-of-things9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hbhargava7/pubmed-sieve
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Pubmed-Sieve is a tool for instantly generating Pubmed RSS feeds and Queries from Google Sheets describing authors/journals/keywords of interest.
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 months
CMP-LIM/limlab-website
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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