Krishnan Chittur
Chief Technology Officer at GeneCapture, Inc.
Saint George, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKrishnan Chittur is a technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience translating bioengineering research into practical diagnostic products, currently focused on rapid, amplification-free detection of infectious agents at GeneCapture. He combines deep academic roots—PhD in Chemical/Bio Engineering from Rice and a long professorship mentoring engineers—with hands-on R&D experience in biomaterials and surface interactions from Case Western. Based in St. George, Utah, he has steered multidisciplinary teams to bridge nucleic acid science and portable hardware, prioritizing actionable results for clinicians. His work reflects a conviction that engineering multiplies human creativity, now applied to making genomic-level insight timely and accessible. Not obvious from titles alone, he has balanced academic teaching and entrepreneurship for decades, aiming to turn complex molecular detection into simple point-of-care tools.
11 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical/Bio Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical/Bio Engineering at Rice UniversityMITx on edX
c, c++, java, ascend, fortran, pythonGithub contributions (5)
kchittur/pythonhowtos
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
kchittur/jhudata
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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