Kumaran Baskaran
Lead Analyst at UConn Health
Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKumaran Baskaran is a computational biophysicist and data scientist with over a decade of experience building production-grade structural biology tools and ML pipelines for global resources like wwPDB and BMRB. He has led development of PyBMRB and integrated NMR/Cryo-EM validation workflows into OneDep, improving data quality detection across tens of thousands of biomolecular entries. His background spans protein dynamics, chemical shift modeling, and FAIR-focused data engineering, combining PyTorch-based predictive modeling with standards work (NMR-STAR, mmCIF) to ensure interoperability. Kumaran’s work sits at the intersection of academic rigor and industrial applicability, turning large-scale structural datasets into actionable inputs for drug discovery and protein engineering. Based in Westborough, MA, he’s seeking senior roles where he can translate open-source, production-ready methods into ML-driven therapeutic innovations. An underappreciated strength is his track record of scaling analysis pipelines across millions of PDB records, enabling high-throughput structural insights.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of MadrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics at University of Regensburg
Github Skills (23)
plotly-python10
leaf9
specification9
tushare9
python8
exchange8
visualization8
plotly8
r-package8
scipy7
computational-biology6
data-visualization6
fetch6
parser6
classifier6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kumar-physics/RBMRB
Jan 2016 - Jul 2021
R libraries to fetch and visualize BMRB data
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 11 tags in 5 years 6 months
r-packagefetchvisualizerstats
kumar-physics/PyBMRB
Dec 2018 - Oct 2024
BMRB data visualization tools using python Plotly
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 282 pushes in 5 years 10 months
plotly-pythonpythonplotly-dashplotlydata-visualization
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