Kevin Ryczko
AI Lead, Drug Discovery at SandboxAQ
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Ryczko is an AI lead specializing in applying state-of-the-art machine learning to accelerate drug and materials discovery, with 13 years of experience spanning research labs, national labs, and industry. He holds a PhD in Physics and has transitioned academic many-body and quantum expertise into practical ML-driven discovery workflows at SandboxAQ, Good Chemistry Company, and 1QBit. Kevin contributes to high-performance open-source scientific software (notably work on the QMCPACK quantum Monte Carlo code) and blends back-end engineering with domain research. Based in Gatineau, Canada, he’s comfortable navigating both foundational physics problems and product-focused ML development, often surfacing non-obvious cross-disciplinary insights that speed up candidate identification.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Modelling and Computational Science, Master’s Degree, Modelling and Computational Science at University of Ontario Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Ontario Tech UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Ottawa
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
ec10
quantum-chemistry10
cpp10
cplus10
parallel-computing7
high-performance7
scientific-computing7
accelerated-computing7
cuda7
cluster-computing7
hpc7
nodejs6
db26
gcc6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
QMCPACK/qmcpack
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Main repository for QMCPACK, an open-source production level many-body ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo code for computing the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids with full performance portable GPU support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 134 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the QMCPACK project, focusing on the `GridExternalPotential` module and related files. Their work involved modifying and updating existing code, including the addition of periodic wrapping, changing edit dates and editors, and removing warnings. They also integrated external potential data and fixed a test related to the `EinsplineSetBuilder` class. Additionally, they added documentation to a header file.
quantum-monte-carlompiatomsgpu-supportc-plus-plus
kryczko/twitter-curl
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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