Pavan Ramkumar is a computational neuroscientist turned AI x Bio builder with 10 years of experience helping venture-backed biotech startups bridge mission-critical gaps in AI/ML, data engineering, MLOps, fundraising and partnerships. He has led ML teams at organoid-focused drug discovery companies, translating cloud-scale biological datasets and microscopy into therapeutic insights and productionized models. As a founder he built an MVP RAG application for target discovery from literature, patents and regulatory filings, and now consults across genomics, microscopy and AI co-scientist initiatives. Based in South San Francisco, he combines deep academic training (PhD in neuroscience and signal processing) with hands-on product and GTM experience, uniquely fluent at the interface of experimental biology and scalable ML systems. An understated strength: he repeatedly turns fragmented, long-tail evidence sources into operational decision-making pipelines that accelerate drug-hunting inflection points.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Summer School 2016
PhD, Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, PhD, Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Machine Learning at Aalto University
B. Tech., Electronics and Communication Engineering, B. Tech., Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
MSc (Tech), Bioinformatics, MSc (Tech), Bioinformatics at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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