Joshua Rackers
Member Of The Technical Staff at Achira
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Rackers is a biophysics-trained machine learning scientist who blends deep learning and applied quantum physics to tackle hard problems in biology. With eight years of experience spanning national labs, industry, and academic research, he has led Physics+ML teams to accelerate drug discovery and served as a Harry S. Truman Fellow at Sandia. He moves fluidly between building predictive models and implementing physics-informed molecular tools—work that includes advancing polarizable force fields in production software. Based in Santa Fe, he combines academic rigor from a PhD in Biophysics with a background in education and public service, reflecting strong communication and mentoring skills. Now at Achira after leading ML efforts at Prescient Design, he focuses on translating physics-grounded ML into actionable therapeutic insights. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge high-performance scientific computing and deployable ML workflows that shorten the path from theory to experiment.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biophysics at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor’s Degree, Physics and Political Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics and Political Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (50)
tinker10
molecular-simulation9
dft9
chemistry9
gaussian8
python8
physics8
computational-chemistry8
gulp8
quantum-chemistry8
siesta7
density-functional-theory7
cpp7
pdb-files6
mechanics6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JoshRackers/equivariant_electron_density
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Generate and predict molecular electron densities with Euclidean Neural Networks
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 8 months
electronneural-network
JoshRackers/tinker
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
TINKER Software Tools for Molecular Design
Contributions:12 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 7 months
tinkersoftware-toolsmolecularbioinformaticsmolecular-design
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