Marawan Ahmed
Co-Founder at API
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarawan Ahmed is a computational chemist and co-founder with 8+ years applying machine learning and atomistic simulations to drug discovery, now leading a stealth biotech tackling antibacterial resistance. He blends deep expertise in quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, docking and free energy calculations with production-grade Python ML tooling (TensorFlow, DeepChem, Scikit-learn) to accelerate small-molecule lead discovery. His career spans academic postdoctoral work and industry roles at Variational AI and API, where he translated high-performance computing workflows into automated, reproducible pipelines. Notably, he has hands-on experience integrating GPU-accelerated modeling and wet-lab validation, and has built bespoke scripts and ML classifiers for GPCR-directed discovery that bridge computational predictions with experimental assays. Based in Edmonton, he combines strategic startup leadership with cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance therapeutics against critical pathogens.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc Computational Chemistry, Postdoc Computational Chemistry at University of AlbertaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational chemistry at Swinburne University of Technology
English
Github Skills (69)
biology10
drug-discovery10
chemistry9
science9
molecule9
prediction9
quantum-chemistry9
proteins9
discovery9
convolutional-neural-networks8
deep-learning8
energy8
docking8
dynamics8
ampl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mmagithub/PD-L1-inhibitors
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
DrrDom/crem
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
CReM: chemically reasonable mutations framework
Contributions:1 issue in 4 years 5 months
bioinformaticsmutationschemoinformaticschemical-space
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